synonym
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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
But cortisol is not a synonym for stress.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2025
It is vital not to use "conspiracies" as a synonym for "conspiracy theories," or for "conspiracism."
From Salon ● May 7, 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
“Abstruse,” “obscure” and “obtuse” are perfectly good words, but only the first two are reasonably close to synonyms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
"Repair" and "fix" may be synonyms, but your trustworthy Midwestern TV dad understands the difference.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 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
You think he'd have a stronger grasp on synonyms.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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