synonym
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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
But cortisol is not a synonym for stress.
From Slate • Sep. 9, 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
But he would not be so bad—nor would he become so successful, a scholarship boy—if he did not accurately perceive that the best synonym for primary ‘education’ is ‘imitation.’
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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