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thesaurus

[thi-sawr-uhs] / θɪˈsɔr əs /


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

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

And now you can break out the thesaurus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

Ms Ain said that experts are also looking to create a legal thesaurus in Indian sign language that would help the deaf lawyers and litigants.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2023

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

She’s some sort of mechanized humanoid, made up of spare computer parts, all the leafy green vegetables that no one ever eats and thesaurus pages.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

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

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

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

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 Rossiter Johnson

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




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