synonym
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But since the end of the Civil War, its economy has languished, becoming a synonym for stagnation and backwardness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
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
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
Midas, whose name has become a synonym for a rich man, had very little profit from his riches.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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