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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
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
But cortisol is not a synonym for stress.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 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
Also, some musicians use the term overtones as a synonym for harmonics.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
No-fault divorce currently allows spouses to file over "irreconcilable differences," "incompatibility" or because their marriages are "irretrievably broken," among other synonyms, with specific language depending on the state.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2024
Because they’re synonyms — they are one and the same.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
When was the last time you looked at the exquisite list of synonyms for the word “baffled”? They may be among the best in the English language: puzzled, nonplused, discombobulated, flummoxed, stumped, fogged, wildered, buffaloed.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Global warming and climate change are often used interchangeably as synonyms, but scientists prefer to use “climate change” when describing the complex shifts now affecting our planet’s weather and climate systems.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 14, 2024
We looked at a version of this principle when we saw that to help the reader keep track of a single entity across multiple mentions, a writer should not flip-flop between unnecessary synonyms.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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