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a word having the same meaning as another word
He needed an synonym for "cold," and decided to use "freezing."
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Her longer term projects included writing the book Food Festivals: Eating Your Way from Coast to Coast, co-authoring the book Holidays and Festivals Dictionary, and serving as an editor for a synonym dictionary entitled The Synonym Finder, published by Rodale.
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2025
The amusing part is that each of these holes is smack in the middle of a synonym for a roadway: ROAD (3D), BOULEVARD (9D), AVENUE (22D) and STREET (38D).
—Deb Amlen, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Some themes that involve the words up or lift or a synonym of that nature require reading entries or parts of entries from bottom to top, or upward (up word?).
—Deb Amlen, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
On the topic of taxonomy, most Sansevieria have been moved lately into the genus Dracaena, based on recent DNA analysis, with the Sansevieria name now considered an older synonym.
—Margaret Roach, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2025
The amusing part is that each of these holes is smack in the middle of a synonym for a roadway: ROAD (3D), BOULEVARD (9D), AVENUE (22D) and STREET (38D).
—Deb Amlen, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Some themes that involve the words up or lift or a synonym of that nature require reading entries or parts of entries from bottom to top, or upward (up word?).
—Deb Amlen, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
On the topic of taxonomy, most Sansevieria have been moved lately into the genus Dracaena, based on recent DNA analysis, with the Sansevieria name now considered an older synonym.
—Margaret Roach, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for synonym
Noun
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The call is for more person-to-person clienteling, which can be aided by AI, yet AI is no substitute for the personal connection.—
Pamela N. Danziger,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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But what really rankles is the idea that these digital interlocutors are a plausible substitute for real friends or family.—
Paul Bloom,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
Noun
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Instead of reflexively reaching for your phone, try doing nothing or something analog.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2025
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The Mars Society, a nonprofit organization that runs the Mars Desert Research Station, or MDRS, invited CNBC to shadow one of its analog crews on a recent mission.—
Magdalena Petrova,
CNBC,
5 July 2025
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“Synonym.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/synonym. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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