metonym

In her 2022 exhibition “End of Subject” at New York’s 52 Walker gallery, everyday objects like barricades became metonyms for the ways in which individuals organize, divide and view one another in social settings.

“Hollywood” is a metonym for America in “The Sympathizer”; it is the country’s front door, its export and its weapon.

They lived as individuals and they died, tragically and way too soon, in a way that comes to be a metonym for the experience of being "American" for a lot of people.

It’s more metonym for the glamorous arrivals than a literal description of what everyone is walking on.

Thus, some scientists say that Gaia, the mother of life, is a poor choice of deity to serve as a metonym for Earth.