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

Affordability isn’t a synonym for inflation, which is the rate of change in the overall price level.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

Smug, as we use it as a synonym for conceited or self-righteous, emerged from its earlier sense of “neat and trim,” which is exactly the ideal of a pert bump.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 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