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  • Enforcing strict boundaries is a good idea: no home phone calls; no dropping by the office without prior appointment; no emails replied to after business hours; no first-naming.

    One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited 2005

  • (If you look closely, you'll probably find that all that first-naming is done on the first page; it's cheaper to personalize one page and duplicate the rest.)

    Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981

  • Blue-bloods first-naming each other was a different thing altogether.

    When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

  • But for older people, formal address matters more, argued Ms. DeWeese, because many of them came of age in an era when no one would think of first-naming a grown-up.

    NYT > Home Page By PAULA SPAN 2010

  • Ms. Kennedy wondered whether nurses are particularly prone to first-naming because they introduce themselves that way: Hello, I'm Maureen.

    NYT > Home Page By PAULA SPAN 2010

  • Ms. Kennedy wondered whether nurses are particularly prone to first-naming because they introduce themselves that way: Hello, I'm Maureen.

    NYT > Home Page By PAULA SPAN 2010

  • But for older people, formal address matters more, argued Ms. DeWeese, because many of them came of age in an era when no one would think of first-naming a grown-up.

    NYT > Home Page By PAULA SPAN 2010

  • The smug memory dropper can smell your nominal aphasia and is going to keep first-naming you until you are crushed into submission. "

    Nell Scovell: A Second Opinion of David Brooks 2008

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