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synonym

[sin-uh-nim] / ˈsɪn ə nɪm /
NOUN
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Sunny: “Please make a sentence using a synonym for ‘clean.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 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

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

“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

People use that word as a synonym for great intelligence, but that’s not what I mean.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

No-fault divorce currently allows spouses to file over "irreconcilable differences," "incompatibility" or because their marriages are "irretrievably broken," among other synonyms, with specific language depending on the state.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

Pedrosa, however, speaks about celebrating the foreigner and the historic waves of migration across the planet, offering a catalog of synonyms — “Immigrant, émigré, expatriate” — even as he expands the concept.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 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

She's going to run out of synonyms pretty soon.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins




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