proverbial
Example Sentences
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“Like the proverbial frog that doesn’t feel the water becoming increasingly hotter, many North American brands are inching into more treacherous positions with their customers’ loyalty,” Forrester Principal Analyst Pete Jacques wrote in the report.
If Stravinsky’s “The Firebird” was the proverbial hit single of the evening, Noseda and Co. offered a treatment that foregrounded easily elided details and pushed its painterly scenes to extremes.
From Washington Post
Working for years with colleagues at ARS, Dr. Diener was credited with identifying the infectious agent at the proverbial root of the problem.
From Washington Post
Raichik widens the circle of distribution — and, in so doing, mercilessly pops their proverbial bubbles.
From Salon
“At the same time those debates have only touched the tip of the proverbial iceberg.”
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
