synonym

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

“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

But he would not be so bad—nor would he become so successful, a scholarship boy—if he did not accurately perceive that the best synonym for primary ‘education’ is ‘imitation.’

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Bowling’s history is a reminder that money and value are not synonyms.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

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

The word “august,’’ small a, is defined as “marked by majestic dignity or grandeur,’’ with synonyms like “imposing” and “impressive.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2023

Of course Cassiopeia actually meant synonyms, but it was all lost on Mrs. Clarke.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood