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synonym

[sin-uh-nim] / ˈsɪn ə nɪm /
NOUN
equivalent word
Synonyms
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STRONGEST
STRONG


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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

But cortisol is not a synonym for stress.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 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

“Perhaps you’d care for a synonym bun,” suggested the duke.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

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

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

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood




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