Alias for the clojure.string Namespace

In Clojure, it's possible to alias a namespace in so many ways. You can read more at [clojure.org](https://www.clojure.org/guides/learn/namespaces). I'm used to seeing the alias for the namespace clojure.string as str. I haven't been coding much lately. Today, I was reminded that Clojure's str function is spelled the same way! Aliasing doesn't prevent using the function str:
(require '[clojure.string :as str])
(str 5)
;; => "5"
A teammate asked if we could use a different alias, like cs or strs. What's the advantage of using a different aliases than str? Making it easier to grep for references to the str function?
I was curious to see what's out there in the wild. Metabase seems to largely use the str alias, as well as that clojure.org article mentioned above!
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