variants
or thesauruses
as in vocabularies
a reference book that groups words with the same or similar meanings together
Struggling to find just the right word, she took to the thesaurus for ideas.
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For decades, BCIs were limited to toy demos and small vocabularies.—
Jason Snyder,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025 -
This indicates that dogs focus on broad sound patterns rather than the finer phonetic details humans rely on, which may explain why their vocabularies remain relatively small.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Thesauri.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thesauri. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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