thesaurus

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

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2025

Ms Ain said that experts are also looking to create a legal thesaurus in Indian sign language that would help the deaf lawyers and litigants.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2023

At their simplest, these programs mask plagiarism through liberal use of a thesaurus; replace enough words with synonyms and hopefully nobody will ever find the original source.

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023

Lithwick: Like, he should have had a thesaurus and defamed her using different words?

From Slate • May 20, 2023

In the air around her, Jack laughed, Jack hooted, Jack cackled, Jack snickered, Jack was a whole thesaurus entry of glee, and Hazel could only let the waves batter her.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu