Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (5)

I believe the answer is:

names

(Other definitions for names that I've seen before include "Appellations or identifiers" , "Heroes" , "identification" , "Some people drop these to sound important" , "Titles" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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