Sentence examples for proper noun from inspiring English sources

The phrase 'proper noun' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to a noun that is the name of specific person, place, or thing. Example: The Proper Noun "Paris" refers to the capital city of France.

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proper noun

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A noun denoting a particular person, place, organization, ship, animal, event, or other individual entity.

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Since when is 'swan' a proper noun?

Is a job title a proper noun?

Why is there no comma before the proper noun Challenger?

Dublin, it declares, is "a plural proper noun".

British spellings must be Americanised even when they occur in a proper noun.

Air quotes didn't quite land on that proper noun, but they hovered close by.

Name of the court that sentenced him Basmanny Soud became a proper noun for that phenomenon.

And that he spent nearly 45 years in Washington, a proper noun that's a dirty word in presidential politics?

but never once as "mercenaries". Any reason why The New York Times refuses to use this proper noun and synonym?

By the past decade, enough Jews were practicing some Buddhism to give birth to a new proper noun: Jew-Bu.

Wilsonian progressives believe that History is a proper noun, an autonomous thing.

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