rebus
Example Sentences
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The effect of these lines, which reach back into the past while projecting far into the future, is that of a rebus, with the stunning phrase “the final whereabouts” offering one more breath of indirection.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2022
It reminds me of a surrealist painting, or a rebus puzzle.
From Slate • Aug. 6, 2021
Follow Plautus’s famous injunction: modus omnibus in rebus.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2016
Mrs. Gordon was credited with pioneering and popularizing the use of the rebus, in which a character represents a word or part of a word.
From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2015
Linguists term this decisive innovation, which also underlies puns today, the rebus principle.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
