synonym

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But since the end of the Civil War, its economy has languished, becoming a synonym for stagnation and backwardness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 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

"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 don’t want the new Twitter to know what’ll keep me “engaged,” which, in my history on the site, has been a synonym for “annoyed but having difficulty looking away.”

From Slate • May 7, 2024

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