thesaurus
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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
A deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol is so close that the negotiating teams have been consulting the thesaurus to help pick a name, in scenes reminiscent of the '80s political comedy, "Yes Minister".
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2023
I have looked in the thesaurus for the right word and it is ‘gleeful’.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
Let's give thesauri to all songwriters incapable of dreaming up more original ways to voice that sentiment.
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
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
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
Critics thumbed thesauruses for hyperboles to rhapsodize about her pyrotechnics.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 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
Take a good look as they don 10-ounce thesauruses packed full of slander.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2017
Pundits exhausted their thesauruses in the search for new synonyms for doleful, dreary and vacuous.
From Time Magazine Archive
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