synonym

For example, when a doctor wants you to stop taking a medication, they’ll often instruct you to “hold” it, as a synonym for a temporary pause or delay—like asking someone to hold the elevator.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Brazil can join the regional transformation that, in recent years, has allowed Latin America to shed its image as a land of romanticized poverty,” Milei said, “and become a synonym for progress.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

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

It is vital not to use "conspiracies" as a synonym for "conspiracy theories," or for "conspiracism."

From Salon ● May 7, 2025

The play on words here depends on ‘fact’ being both a synonym for ‘deed’ and ‘act’ but also a word used specifically for unlawful deeds and acts.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“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

Bowling’s history is a reminder that money and value are not synonyms.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

Pedrosa, however, speaks about celebrating the foreigner and the historic waves of migration across the planet, offering a catalog of synonyms — “Immigrant, émigré, expatriate” — even as he expands the concept.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2024

For family delicacy, Dad coined two synonyms for going to the bathroom in the woods.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey