thesaurus

He and other brainy classmates would be assigned an issue—like global warming—and compete to present the best possible solution, with only a dictionary and a thesaurus as their available tools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Look up a thesaurus and you'll find dozens of ways to describe what happened here but, somehow, none of them quite hit the mark.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

She undoubtedly has a thesaurus earmarked and highlighted like a high school student’s SparkNotes copy of “Macbeth.”

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

And now you can break out the thesaurus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

They searched for a name in a thesaurus, where they found hers, the last in a chain of luminous words.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

Why, at the moment the audience should be melting into tears over the death of this salesman, does the playwright introduce a word that sets viewers to thumbing their internal thesauri?

From Time Magazine Archive

Let's give thesauri to all songwriters incapable of dreaming up more original ways to voice that sentiment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ratings plummeted after the first episode, and critics dug out their thesauri to find new words for "awful."

From Time Magazine Archive

Nor do its plural forms, the highfalutin thesauri, or thesauruses, which sounds like a prehistoric creature.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were then no short cuts to learning, no comprehensive lexicons, no dictionaries of antiquities, no carefully prepared thesauri of mythology and history.

From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

Stevens raised challenges in dozens of school districts over the Bible, dictionaries and thesauruses.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

Amin said because some countries, particularly poorer ones may see phase-out as too restrictive, negotiators could even hit their thesauruses for alternatives to the much discussed phase-out or phase-down wording.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

Later, he worked on encyclopedias and thesauruses, becoming one of America’s leading lexicographers.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2015

I encourage pupils to use dictionaries and thesauruses so pupils compile their own word banks.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2013

While other commentators, overwhelmed at the turn of events, had been forced to consult thesauruses in an effort to find synonyms for "wholesale repudiation" and "visceral disgust," Panetta had a slightly different take.

From Time Magazine Archive