thesaurus
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Look up a thesaurus and you'll find dozens of ways to describe what happened here but, somehow, none of them quite hit the mark.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
She undoubtedly has a thesaurus earmarked and highlighted like a high school student’s SparkNotes copy of “Macbeth.”
From Salon • Jan. 7, 2025
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
Give me a thesaurus and there’s no stopping me.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2023
I have looked in the thesaurus for the right word and it is ‘gleeful’.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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