thesaurus

As the authors write, he turned to the thesaurus and made lists of traditional “pirating” words.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025

She undoubtedly has a thesaurus earmarked and highlighted like a high school student’s SparkNotes copy of “Macbeth.”

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

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

It was helpful the way a thesaurus or Google is, offering inspiration for what to write.

From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2023

After a few weeks of what she called "endless pestering" and what I called "repeated badgering," my mother bought me a pocket thesaurus, which provided me with s-free alternatives to just about everything.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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 Johnson, Rossiter

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 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

We all sat around a large table full of etymological dictionaries and thesauruses, and the children were discussing a line about being born in Mexico.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2018

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

From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2013

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

From Time Magazine Archive