thesaurus
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Crosby wants Roget's Thesaurus because with that, and a sharp stick, "I could do some useful writing".
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022
One exception he found: Lester Berrey’s 1947 “American Thesaurus of Slang” includes many nicknames for California, including “Eureka State,” “Golden Poppy State,” “Land of Perpetual Sunshine” and, yes, “Cali.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2022
Among the antonyms for “nice” in Roget’s Thesaurus are “ugly,” “horrible,” “nasty” and “repulsive.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2020
Denver special teams coach Tom McMahon, who described his unit’s play at Pittsburgh as “one word: terrible,” won’t need a Thesaurus for this one.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2020
Indeed, such an enumeration is now rendered Old glosses. superfluous owing to the publication of the Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, in which all the various glosses have been collected.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
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