synonym
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“Brazil can join the regional transformation that, in recent years, has allowed Latin America to shed its image as a land of romanticized poverty,” Milei said, “and become a synonym for progress.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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
It is vital not to use "conspiracies" as a synonym for "conspiracy theories," or for "conspiracism."
From Salon ● May 7, 2025
What word is a synonym of "amiable"? Ans.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
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
She speaks in perfectly formed paragraphs and deploys what feels like a thesaurus’s worth of synonyms.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2023
She's going to run out of synonyms pretty soon.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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