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The drug itself has become a metonym for the increasing malleability of our appearances, which can be altered via operations, injections, or digital filters—all more normalized than ever before.
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Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2026
Prior to 2022, the filmmaker wouldn’t have dared target such a character — to make Eqbal a metonym for the regime.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Oct. 2025
While the business center of the industry resides elsewhere now, Chungmuro remains a metonym for the nation’s cinema.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 22 Aug. 2025
Like them or not, Oasis has become something of a metonym for a time past; an impression only burnished by their absence.
—Thomas Page, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025
Termite Terrace would end up becoming a metonym for the studio’s cartoon department.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 29 Mar. 2025
And isn’t Hudson Yards already a metonym for the dispiriting, suicide-inducing effects of corporate architecture?
—Dean Kissick, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
As with early computers, accessing AI—a metonym for many different but related technologies—has meant accessing the institutions that develop them.
—Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 2 Sep. 2024
Dworkin, metonym for an outmoded Second Wave stridency?
—Sam Huber, The New York Review of Books, 26 Jan. 2023
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Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2026
Prior to 2022, the filmmaker wouldn’t have dared target such a character — to make Eqbal a metonym for the regime.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Oct. 2025
While the business center of the industry resides elsewhere now, Chungmuro remains a metonym for the nation’s cinema.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 22 Aug. 2025
Like them or not, Oasis has become something of a metonym for a time past; an impression only burnished by their absence.
—Thomas Page, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025
Termite Terrace would end up becoming a metonym for the studio’s cartoon department.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 29 Mar. 2025
And isn’t Hudson Yards already a metonym for the dispiriting, suicide-inducing effects of corporate architecture?
—Dean Kissick, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
As with early computers, accessing AI—a metonym for many different but related technologies—has meant accessing the institutions that develop them.
—Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 2 Sep. 2024
Dworkin, metonym for an outmoded Second Wave stridency?
—Sam Huber, The New York Review of Books, 26 Jan. 2023
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“Metonym.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metonym. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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