metonymy

The catalyzing event becomes a metonymy for other sources of anger with the central government—corruption, police and military brutality, a ravaged job market—and the rallies massively increase in number.

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2022

It is a metonymy that suggests that the irreducible lives and fates of the dispossessed are not this show’s concern, and certainly haven’t been “recovered” as we were promised at the outset.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021

And I argue that even though he’s world-famous and globally acclaimed, he’s really underrated for the kind of sophisticated nuanced deployment of homophones, metonymy, simile, metaphor, braggadocio, allusion.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2019

The Acela metonymy suggests Bloomberg’s basic problem: His appeal is rather selective.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2016

"For beyond controversy, they are to be taken figuratively,… as when by metonymy the name of the symbolized thing is transferred to the sign—ut per metonymiam ad signum transferatur rei figuratae nomen."

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

For a time it seems not so important to classify the metonymies as to make peas or dandelion taste like coffee.

From The Story of a Life by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis

Rhetoricians give elaborate classifications of metonymies, but they are of little value to the scriptural student, since all are interpreted according to the few simple principles given in the preceding chapter.

From Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows