metonym

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

From New York Times • May 6, 2024

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

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2023

Belle and Sebastian’s first two albums, “Tigermilk” and “If You’re Feeling Sinister,” both released in 1996, congealed a certain starry-eyed preciousness with unrepentantly adorable shambolics, near-instantly making the band a metonym for tweedom writ large.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023

There is even a popular colloquial term for those hierarchies: A pecking order, which is used as a metonym for any social hierarchy, particularly workplace ones.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2022

"Bartús" is evidently formed "on the weight" of "Bartút;" and his metonym is a caricature, a chaff fit for Fellahe.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir