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
Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands’ parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is “taking a daughter-in-law.”
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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