synonym
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Once a slur that implied homosexuality was shamefully deviant, “queer” was “reclaimed” in the 1980s by gay activists as a synonym for “gay.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
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
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
The play on words here depends on ‘fact’ being both a synonym for ‘deed’ and ‘act’ but also a word used specifically for unlawful deeds and acts.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Because they’re synonyms — they are one and the same.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
Pedrosa, however, speaks about celebrating the foreigner and the historic waves of migration across the planet, offering a catalog of synonyms — “Immigrant, émigré, expatriate” — even as he expands the concept.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
"Heating and warming are synonyms, in some sense, but not always. Sometimes 'heating' relates more to temperature change rather than simply the temperature itself, and that's where some of the confusion arises."
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2024
Global warming and climate change are often used interchangeably as synonyms, but scientists prefer to use “climate change” when describing the complex shifts now affecting our planet’s weather and climate systems.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 14, 2024
She's going to run out of synonyms pretty soon.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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