noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
change
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In women's tennis, they changed their surnames faster than the score.
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As part of the marriage settlement he changed his surname to Smith-Cumming, later becoming known as Cumming.
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I changed my surname because I did not want my sire's name.
know
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He knows she has been married since graduating but doesn't know her present surname or whereabouts.
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No one ever seemed to know William's surname and he had a bizarre appearance at a time when smartness was highly valued.
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He didn't even know her surname .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before the established use of surnames a recourse to nicknames was almost necessary and certainly of very frequent occurrence.
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However, the head-of-family system and the ban on marriage between people of the same surname remained unchanged.
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I monitor her face for reactions to that familiar and, for us, unlucky surname .
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Probably no one had called him by his surname since he was in the Army.
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The alarm was not raised until last Friday when one arrived home with the wrong surname on an identity bracelet.
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Then the computer sorts all the surnames into what we call frequency ranges.
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Those patients with surnames from A-L received one level of benefit.