synonym

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

I will note, however, that my 7-year-old son, who has no concept of romantic appeal, uses this word differently—sometimes as a synonym for coolness and sometimes for intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

"Wolfsburg and Volkswagen - it's kind of a synonym," explains Dieter Landenberger, the VW Group's in-house historian, as he looks lovingly at an early model Beetle.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025

I believe that hope can be viewed as a synonym for democracy.

From Salon ● Jan. 20, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

"Heating and warming are synonyms, in some sense, but not always. Sometimes 'heating' relates more to temperature change rather than simply the temperature itself, and that's where some of the confusion arises."

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2024

When was the last time you looked at the exquisite list of synonyms for the word “baffled”? They may be among the best in the English language: puzzled, nonplused, discombobulated, flummoxed, stumped, fogged, wildered, buffaloed.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

We looked at a version of this principle when we saw that to help the reader keep track of a single entity across multiple mentions, a writer should not flip-flop between unnecessary synonyms.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker