synonym
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I will notehoweverthat my 7-year-old sonwho has no concept of romantic appealuses this word differently—sometimes as a synonym for coolness and sometimes for intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 192025
“Pie is the American synonym of prosperity and its varying contents the calendar of the changing seasons,” declares the New York Times in an article that ran on May 31902titledappropriately enough“PIE.”
From Salon • Jun. 192025
"Wolfsburg and Volkswagen - it's kind of a synonym," explains Dieter Landenbergerthe VW Group's in-house historianas he looks lovingly at an early model Beetle.
From BBC • Feb. 112025
I don’t want the new Twitter to know what’ll keep me “engaged,” whichin my history on the sitehas been a synonym for “annoyed but having difficulty looking away.”
From Slate • May 72024
“Perhaps you’d care for a synonym bun,” suggested the duke.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
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