synonym
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But since the end of the Civil War, its economy has languished, becoming a synonym for stagnation and backwardness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
At the time, the word actor was “a synonym for airhead. Well, Reagan was no airhead,” Cannon said in a 2008 interview at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2025
“Pie is the American synonym of prosperity and its varying contents the calendar of the changing seasons,” declares the New York Times in an article that ran on May 3, 1902, titled, appropriately enough, “PIE.”
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2025
"Wolfsburg and Volkswagen - it's kind of a synonym," explains Dieter Landenberger, the VW Group's in-house historian, as he looks lovingly at an early model Beetle.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2025
“It is difficult to give him a rating above a $5,000 plater,” wrote one journalist, using the synonym for claimer.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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