thesaurus
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He and other brainy classmates would be assigned an issue—like global warming—and compete to present the best possible solution, with only a dictionary and a thesaurus as their available tools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
And now you can break out the thesaurus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
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
A deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol is so close that the negotiating teams have been consulting the thesaurus to help pick a name, in scenes reminiscent of the '80s political comedy, "Yes Minister".
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2023
A massive thesaurus sits beside a dictionary that’s missing its hardcover spine.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
Why, at the moment the audience should be melting into tears over the death of this salesman, does the playwright introduce a word that sets viewers to thumbing their internal thesauri?
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor do its plural forms, the highfalutin thesauri, or thesauruses, which sounds like a prehistoric creature.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let's give thesauri to all songwriters incapable of dreaming up more original ways to voice that sentiment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ratings plummeted after the first episode, and critics dug out their thesauri to find new words for "awful."
From Time Magazine Archive
There were then no short cuts to learning, no comprehensive lexicons, no dictionaries of antiquities, no carefully prepared thesauri of mythology and history.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
Stevens raised challenges in dozens of school districts over the Bible, dictionaries and thesauruses.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
Critics thumbed thesauruses for hyperboles to rhapsodize about her pyrotechnics.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
Amin said because some countries, particularly poorer ones may see phase-out as too restrictive, negotiators could even hit their thesauruses for alternatives to the much discussed phase-out or phase-down wording.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
I encourage pupils to use dictionaries and thesauruses so pupils compile their own word banks.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2013
Nor do its plural forms, the highfalutin thesauri, or thesauruses, which sounds like a prehistoric creature.
From Time Magazine Archive
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