rebus
Example Sentences
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The effect of these lines, which reach back into the past while projecting far into the future, is that of a rebus, with the stunning phrase “the final whereabouts” offering one more breath of indirection.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2022
It reminds me of a surrealist painting, or a rebus puzzle.
From Slate • Aug. 6, 2021
A rebus, a romance, a gothic thriller and a woozy comedy, “The Handmaiden” is finally and most significantly a liberation story.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2016
Today the rebus is a convention of the crossword.
From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2015
Logograms for abstract words were often derived by the rebus principle.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
