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thesaurus

[thi-sawr-uhs] / θɪˈsɔr əs /


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Ms Ain said that experts are also looking to create a legal thesaurus in Indian sign language that would help the deaf lawyers and litigants.

From BBC Oct. 8, 2023

At their simplest, these programs mask plagiarism through liberal use of a thesaurus; replace enough words with synonyms and hopefully nobody will ever find the original source.

From Scientific American Sep. 28, 2023

A charge against you isn't merely false, it's totally false or completely bogus, or some such, from the liar's well-thumbed thesaurus.

From Salon May 6, 2023

Give me a thesaurus and there’s no stopping me.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 5, 2023

She’s some sort of mechanized humanoid, made up of spare computer parts, all the leafy green vegetables that no one ever eats and thesaurus pages.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

Nor do its plural forms, the highfalutin thesauri, or thesauruses, which sounds like a prehistoric creature.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let's give thesauri to all songwriters incapable of dreaming up more original ways to voice that sentiment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ratings plummeted after the first episode, and critics dug out their thesauri to find new words for "awful."

From Time Magazine Archive

Why, at the moment the audience should be melting into tears over the death of this salesman, does the playwright introduce a word that sets viewers to thumbing their internal thesauri?

From Time Magazine Archive

There were then no short cuts of learning, no comprehensive lexicons, no dictionaries of antiquities, no carefully prepared thesauri of mythology and history.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson

Stevens raised challenges in dozens of school districts over the Bible, dictionaries and thesauruses.

From Seattle Times Apr. 16, 2024

Critics thumbed thesauruses for hyperboles to rhapsodize about her pyrotechnics.

From New York Times Jan. 30, 2024

Amin said because some countries, particularly poorer ones may see phase-out as too restrictive, negotiators could even hit their thesauruses for alternatives to the much discussed phase-out or phase-down wording.

From Seattle Times Dec. 5, 2023

I encourage pupils to use dictionaries and thesauruses so pupils compile their own word banks.

From The Guardian Apr. 24, 2013

While other commentators, overwhelmed at the turn of events, had been forced to consult thesauruses in an effort to find synonyms for "wholesale repudiation" and "visceral disgust," Panetta had a slightly different take.

From Time Magazine Archive




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