synonym

Once a slur that implied homosexuality was shamefully deviant, “queer” was “reclaimed” in the 1980s by gay activists as a synonym for “gay.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

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

“Pie is the American synonym of prosperity and its varying contents the calendar of the changing seasons,” declares the New York Times in an article that ran on May 3, 1902, titled, appropriately enough, “PIE.”

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 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

The synonym was official, authoritative; it was the verdict that the culture gave on a person like her.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Because they’re synonyms — they are one and the same.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

"Heating and warming are synonyms, in some sense, but not always. Sometimes 'heating' relates more to temperature change rather than simply the temperature itself, and that's where some of the confusion arises."

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 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

As for the oath, they wrote that dictionaries from the time of the nation’s founding and Civil War era listed “support” and “defend” as synonyms for each other.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

I need to know that ramify and bifurcate are synonyms, if they even are?

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin