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The phrase "wear the name of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that someone or something is associated with a particular name, title, or label, often in a symbolic or representative manner. Example: "He wears the name of a champion with pride, having trained for years to achieve this title."
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"Strange," Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "that broad America must wear the name of a thief.
When you agree to cheer the athletic exploits of some group of well-compensated strangers who happen to wear the name of your municipality emblazoned on their chests, you assume there will be some heartache and, with luck, some exhilaration too.
But the biggest addition will come in January: the St . Regis Bal Harbour Resort(9703 Collins Avenue; 305-993-3300) will be the brand's sprawling new flagship, where all rooms will have floor-to-ceiling panoramic ocean views and the restaurant will wear the name of Jean-Georges Vongerichten.
Though many of my teammates received no athletic scholarship money, I received a roughly 50percentto70percentcent scholarship, depending on the year, to play a game, to travel around the country (free) with my best friends playing that game, and to proudly wear the name of the school that I grew to love across my chest while I did so.
"If what is forming at New Haven might wear the name of Yale College, it would be better than a name of sons and daughters, and your munificence might easily obtain for you such a commemoration and perpetuation of your valuable name as would indeed be much better than an Egyptian pyramid," suggested the artful trustees.
He got his girlfriend Marianna's name inscribed on his chest, because "if you wear the name of a loved one on your skin, then they're always close by".
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In 2006, an innovative deal with Columbia Pictures saw Los Rojiblancos wear the names of different upcoming movies over the course of two seasons, including Hellboy, Big Fish and Resident Evil: Apocalypse (no relation to X-Men's Apocalypse).
Some women who are able to strike will wear the names of others who cannot.
The Dart, wearing the name of a 1960s compact car and built on the Fiat platform used by the Alfa Romeo Giulietta, subtly borrows from the muscular Dodge Charger.
MAYBACH DRS The Mercedes-Benz design center in Japan offered an "electric powered rickshaw," for some reason wearing the name of Maybach, the company's unsuccessful high-end brand.
In the age of Harris's nostalgia, there might not have been superhero films that wore the name of their franchise brand in the title — but there would also never have been anything as daring and original as "To the Wonder" or "The Grand Budapest Hotel" or "The Wolf of Wall Street" or "Somewhere".
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
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