Names
Names noun - Verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument.
Public figures and names are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Public figures" instead a noun "Names".
Public figures
Names and public figures are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Names" instead a noun phrase "Public figures".
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The company also celebrates the 99th birthday of public figures and names 99 year old individuals as honorary spokespersons.
Source: And Ninety Nine Cents -
In-Name-Only: The ghouls who bear the names of famous public figures aren't really them; as they later reveal that ghouls' names are given to them after they become ghouls.
Source: Literature / The Graveyard Book - Although George Bush and Dick Cheney appear as characters on-page occasionally, their names are never used (except for on one page near the very end of Book 6 after both characters are dead), even though names of other public figures, such as Ashcroft and Scalia, are used more or less freely.
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