synecdoche
Example Sentences
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The near-perfect overlay of the religious image with a political image is a visual synecdoche for the Revolution’s replacement of Christianity with the cults of Nature and Reason.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
In Darlington’s Devon neighborhood, the synecdoche for global habitat destruction is the arrival of a sign in a soon-to-be-former farm field: “Site Acquired for Development.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023
WB also seems happy to peddle all things Casablanca, which has essentially become Warner Bros. synecdoche for all of the company’s holdings pre-1980.
From Slate • Jul. 16, 2021
The home, a nation unto itself, falls easily into the pitfalls of synecdoche.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2020
Besides, the custom of speech is well known that by the same word we sometimes comprehend by synecdoche the cause and effects.
From Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Melanchthon, Philipp
