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Recent Examples of synonym
Human rights and its synonyms have received 71 mentions so far this quarter in the U.S., compared with 129 a year ago.
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Dasha Afanasieva/ Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 2 June 2024
But is Google’s reign as a synonym for ‘search’ nearing its end?
—Sandy Carter, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Just the opposite—even as the company has turned its product into a synonym for its category, the way every MP3 player was an iPod, Amazon keeps steaming ahead, making new devices.
—David Pierce, WIRED, 5 May 2016
Earlier, the term had generally been taken as a dramatic synonym for nuclear weapons or weapons of similar destructive capacity that might be developed in the future.
—John Mueller, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2013
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Dasha Afanasieva/ Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 2 June 2024
But is Google’s reign as a synonym for ‘search’ nearing its end?
—Sandy Carter, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Just the opposite—even as the company has turned its product into a synonym for its category, the way every MP3 player was an iPod, Amazon keeps steaming ahead, making new devices.
—David Pierce, WIRED, 5 May 2016
Earlier, the term had generally been taken as a dramatic synonym for nuclear weapons or weapons of similar destructive capacity that might be developed in the future.
—John Mueller, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for synonym
Noun
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Bolden, who’d warned about lax security practices around President John F. Kennedy, was charged in 1964 with attempting to sell a copy of a Secret Service file to a ring of counterfeiters.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025
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Photo: Ron Bull/Getty Images The back image of Book of Lives features a black-and-white photo of Atwood in the ’70s reading a copy of her second novel, Surfacing, which wrestles with national identity and the marginalization of women, both ambient and overt.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The evacuation warnings turned out to be duplicates of the flawed Kenneth Fire alerts sent the day before.—
Holly Yan,
CNN,
16 Jan. 2025
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Remove errors, duplicates and irrelevant information from the collected data.—
Sandro Shubladze,
Forbes,
3 Dec. 2024
Noun
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This motivated the study to find an asteroidal analog for [...] an angrite.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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The legislation has endorsements from various state and federal law enforcement associations, but critics argue that reclassifying fentanyl analogs will do nothing to address the demand-side factors of the opioid epidemic.—
Gabrielle M. Etzel,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Synonym.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/synonym. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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