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The Cotton Club Boys, as a branded name of an entertainment group, is singular; yet, as a phrase, it is plural – and even more overtly plural (in an idiomatic sense) when a countable prefix is added to define the size of the group (i.e., "The Six Cotton Club Boys"); neither (i) the Wikipedia Manual Style (MoS) nor (ii) The Chicago Manual of Style, an American English style guide used widely by U.S. publishers and academicians, offers guidance for this conflicting idiomatic phenomenon; but the AP Stylebook, an American English style guide used widely by U.S. journalists, recommends treating plural sounding organizational names as collective plurals

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The Cotton Club Boys was a nationally acclaimed chorus line
The Cotton Club Boys were nationally acclaimed chorus line members (recommended)