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Her longer term projects included writing the book Food Festivals: Eating Your Way from Coast to Coast, co-authoring the book Holidays and Festivals Dictionary, and serving as an editor for a synonym dictionary entitled The Synonym Finder, published by Rodale.
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2025
The amusing part is that each of these holes is smack in the middle of a synonym for a roadway: ROAD (3D), BOULEVARD (9D), AVENUE (22D) and STREET (38D).
—Deb Amlen, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Some themes that involve the words up or lift or a synonym of that nature require reading entries or parts of entries from bottom to top, or upward (up word?).
—Deb Amlen, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
On the topic of taxonomy, most Sansevieria have been moved lately into the genus Dracaena, based on recent DNA analysis, with the Sansevieria name now considered an older synonym.
—Margaret Roach, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2025
The amusing part is that each of these holes is smack in the middle of a synonym for a roadway: ROAD (3D), BOULEVARD (9D), AVENUE (22D) and STREET (38D).
—Deb Amlen, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Some themes that involve the words up or lift or a synonym of that nature require reading entries or parts of entries from bottom to top, or upward (up word?).
—Deb Amlen, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
On the topic of taxonomy, most Sansevieria have been moved lately into the genus Dracaena, based on recent DNA analysis, with the Sansevieria name now considered an older synonym.
—Margaret Roach, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for synonym
Noun
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Luminate reports that during the most recent tracking period — which is when people learned of Wilson’s passing — the song sold just under 4,200 copies.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Selling 95,000 copies of DESIRE: UNLEASH in the U.S., the boy band also scored a No. 3 debut on the Billboard 200, marking its eighth entry on the chart and its fifth top 10 album.—
Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
23 June 2025
Noun
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The ovum carrying the new genetic material is allowed to develop into an embryo and then transferred into the womb of a surrogate, which ultimately gives birth to an exact duplicate of the animal from which the donor cell was taken.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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A lot of time and money is invested in ensuring your home makes a first impression that represents the style and personality of those living inside it, and having a duplicate on the street makes the neighborhood feel more cookie-cutter.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The receiver also has a 3.5mm analog output for connecting to a digital camera or other recording device.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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The second was the participants’ visual analog scale (VAS) rating of pain during rest and movement.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 June 2025
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“Synonym.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/synonym. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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