synonym

Example Sentences

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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

Affordability isn’t a synonym for inflation, which is the rate of change in the overall price level.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 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

I believe that hope can be viewed as a synonym for democracy.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2025

There was graffiti in Webster’s but the synonym wasn’t part of it.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides