thesaurus

Example Sentences

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She speaks in perfectly formed paragraphs and deploys what feels like a thesaurus’s worth of synonyms.

From New York Times

Another year passed before I could write an intelligible essay, yet teachers always marked my work with “awkward” because I so loved the thesaurus.

From Washington Post

A deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol is so close that the negotiating teams have been consulting the thesaurus to help pick a name, in scenes reminiscent of the '80s political comedy, "Yes Minister".

From BBC

Much of Shakespeare’s wordplay, incomprehensible without an Elizabethan thesaurus, has been swept away along with words like “master” and “mistress” and their buzzkill implications.

From New York Times

“You’d exhaust the thesaurus of misery. It’s an appalling and tragic loss of life.”

From New York Times