thesaurus

Example Sentences

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Give me a thesaurus and there’s no stopping me.

From Los Angeles Times

She speaks in perfectly formed paragraphs and deploys what feels like a thesaurus’s worth of synonyms.

From New York Times

Another year passed before I could write an intelligible essay, yet teachers always marked my work with “awkward” because I so loved the thesaurus.

From Washington Post

A deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol is so close that the negotiating teams have been consulting the thesaurus to help pick a name, in scenes reminiscent of the '80s political comedy, "Yes Minister".

From BBC

Even by the standards of the legal profession, he can seem like a walking, talking thesaurus, with an affection for words like “charlatanic,” “obeisantly” and “annihilative.”

From Washington Post