thesaurus
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Look up a thesaurus and you'll find dozens of ways to describe what happened here but, somehow, none of them quite hit the mark.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
At their simplest, these programs mask plagiarism through liberal use of a thesaurus; replace enough words with synonyms and hopefully nobody will ever find the original source.
From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023
Lithwick: Like, he should have had a thesaurus and defamed her using different words?
From Slate • May 20, 2023
A charge against you isn't merely false, it's totally false or completely bogus, or some such, from the liar's well-thumbed thesaurus.
From Salon • May 6, 2023
After a few weeks of what she called "endless pestering" and what I called "repeated badgering," my mother bought me a pocket thesaurus, which provided me with s-free alternatives to just about everything.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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