synonym
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At the time, the word actor was “a synonym for airhead. Well, Reagan was no airhead,” Cannon said in a 2008 interview at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2025
I will note, however, that my 7-year-old son, who has no concept of romantic appeal, uses this word differently—sometimes as a synonym for coolness and sometimes for intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
But cortisol is not a synonym for stress.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2025
"Wolfsburg and Volkswagen - it's kind of a synonym," explains Dieter Landenberger, the VW Group's in-house historian, as he looks lovingly at an early model Beetle.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025
There was graffiti in Webster’s but the synonym wasn’t part of it.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
“Abstruse,” “obscure” and “obtuse” are perfectly good words, but only the first two are reasonably close to synonyms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
No-fault divorce currently allows spouses to file over "irreconcilable differences," "incompatibility" or because their marriages are "irretrievably broken," among other synonyms, with specific language depending on the state.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2024
Because they’re synonyms — they are one and the same.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
Global warming and climate change are often used interchangeably as synonyms, but scientists prefer to use “climate change” when describing the complex shifts now affecting our planet’s weather and climate systems.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 14, 2024
I need to know that ramify and bifurcate are synonyms, if they even are?
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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