synonym

Example Sentences

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Affordability isn’t a synonym for inflation, which is the rate of change in the overall price level.

From The Wall Street Journal

Soon afterward, in April 1937, the fascist militaries of Germany and Italy dropped bombs on a Spanish town with a name that quickly became a synonym for the slaughter of civilians: Guernica.

From Salon

“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

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

From Salon

"Plus 'Catholic Church' and 'cutting edge' are far from synonyms - innovation is almost antithetical to ritual."

From BBC