metonym
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In her 2022 exhibition “End of Subject” at New York’s 52 Walker gallery, everyday objects like barricades became metonyms for the ways in which individuals organize, divide and view one another in social settings.
From New York Times • May 10, 2024
As the title of his memoir suggests, Stevens has assumed pride of place in two cities that have become metonyms for aspiration, idealism and their own unique manifestations of power.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2022
On “First Take,” they often invoked individual athletes as metonyms for the broader values and varieties of excellence that animated their enjoyment of sports.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 18, 2018
Jobs conflated his besotted worker-self with his company so effectively that his black turtleneck and jeans became metonyms for all of Apple and the labor that maintains it.
From Slate • Jan. 16, 2014
The cemeteries themselves are the metonyms of the villages, and the graves of the houses.
From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
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