synonym

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

I will note, however, that my 7-year-old son, who has no concept of romantic appeal, uses this word differently—sometimes as a synonym for coolness and sometimes for intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

But cortisol is not a synonym for stress.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2025

“Pie is the American synonym of prosperity and its varying contents the calendar of the changing seasons,” declares the New York Times in an article that ran on May 3, 1902, titled, appropriately enough, “PIE.”

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2025

Midas, whose name has become a synonym for a rich man, had very little profit from his riches.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

“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

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

He spoke as if the three were synonyms.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover