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
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
The play on words here depends on ‘fact’ being both a synonym for ‘deed’ and ‘act’ but also a word used specifically for unlawful deeds and acts.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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