The phrase "the dragon reborn" is used 104 times in the Gathering Storm. Also, people often use "the dragon" without capping it with "reborn" when referring to Rand throughout the books, but not nearly as often as "the dragon reborn" which seems consistent with TGS. I'd quote the examples if they weren't easy enough to find.



They (the Forsaken) use both when thinking and describing. It is not uncommon for a Forsaken to think of it as a weave, or be described that they "wove" the one power. When it's a complex weaving, the Forsaken sometimes describe it as a web.

TITLE: Fires of Heaven
CHAPTER: Prologue - The First Sparks Fall
"Let him whittle away the dead wood," Sammael said gruffly. He wove flows of Air to drag a chair across the carpet and sprawled with his boots crossed at the ankle and one arm over the low, carved back.

TITLE: Fires of Heaven
CHAPTER: 32 - A Short Spear
Asmodean swallowed, shifting as though he-did not know whether Rand meant his threat. Rand was not sure himself. [...] “I felt your weave anybody within a mile could have felt it-I never saw anything like it-I didn’t know that anyone but Demandred could block a gateway that was closing, and maybe Semirhage-and Lews Therin-I felt it, and came, and a hard time I had getting past those Maidens-I used the same trick-you must know I am your man now. My Lord Dragon, I am your man.”

TITLE: Lord of Chaos
CHAPTER: Prologue - The First Message
Automatically Mesaana dropped into a lecturing tone. "The White Tower now has guards and wards on their strongrooms, inside and out, plus they count everything four times each day. The Great Hold in the Stone of Tear is also warded, with a nasty thing that would have held me fast had I tried to pass through or untie it. I don't think it can be untied except by whoever wove it, and until then it is a trap for any other woman who can channel."

TITLE: Crown of Swords
CHAPTER: 20 - Patterns Within Patterns
For a moment she stood looking at the opening. A vertical silver slash appeared off to one side, but before her gateway began to align, she let go the weave, slowly, the streak shrinking to a point before winking out. The prickling vanished from the watcher's skin as she released saidar as well. With a fixed face, she followed Sammael, and his gateway closed behind her.

TITLE: Winter's Heart
CHAPTER: 35 - With the Choedan Kal
Scrambling to the top of the hill, Osan'gar dropped to the ground on his belly and smiled as he crabbed sideways to shelter behind a tree. [...] No one else among the Chosen possessed so much as an angreal. Even Moridin would quail before him once he had that crystal sword. Nae'blis? Osan'gar would be named Nae'blis after he destroyed al'Thor and undid all that he had done here. Laughing softly, he wove balefire. Who would ever have thought that he would turn out to be the hero of the day?