How to Use synonym in a Sentence

synonym

noun
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  • The synonym, on the other hand, plays well with others.
    — Leah Eskin, charlotteobserver, 7 Sep. 2017
  • One’s a synonym for Midwestern, and — in the minds of many — the other might as well be.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
  • Clive Davis’ name is a synonym for the ultimate record man.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Resetting the line of scrimmage is a synonym for stopping the run.
    — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2020
  • In fact, a synonym in Italian for tuorlo (yolk) is rosso (red).
    — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2019
  • The region has been a synonym for remote for centuries.
    — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2019
  • The very name Scrooge has become a global synonym for stingy or miserly….
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Even the casual use of the term refugee on the streets of Warsaw as a synonym for Ukrainian was noteworthy.
    — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 3 May 2022
  • Watching grass grow has long been a synonym for boredom.
    — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
  • For a long time, boxed wine was a synonym for the cheapest, sweetest wines available, like Franzia and Bota Box.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The phrase has been popularized as a synonym for a paradox.
    — Gary Levin, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Today’s Theme Each of the theme entries has two parts: The first word is a type of food and the second is a synonym for leaving a location.
    — Deb Amlen, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • But White in this context is a synonym for awkward or uncool.
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
  • In countless languages and religions, breath is a synonym for life, as well as for the spirit or soul.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Fan, we are told frequently, should not be a synonym for customer.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The name also is a relative synonym for the dam, Strong Incentive.
    — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The word is a whimsical synonym for fate, the unpredictable forces that lead people to their destiny.
    — Rachel Syme, New York Times, 9 June 2017
  • It is sometimes used as a synonym for uncouth or a simpleton.
    — David Luhnow and Juan Montes, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The danger is thus acute of Agile becoming a synonym for cost-cutting.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • This is what the app economy, often a synonym for the new economy, demands.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 30 July 2019
  • Recession is a word, which is loosely, and wrongly, used as a synonym for slowdown.
    — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 26 Apr. 2020
  • If that term seems overused today, the short’s title provides both a case study and a clunky synonym for the year’s trendiest accusation.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Messari Research’ is a synonym for Messari founder Ryan Selkis).
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The word itself has become a synonym for something that is real and tangible.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Burt Bacharach, songwriter who was a ‘synonym for pop-music success,’ dies at 94.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Several companies sell the drug in the US, for prices that range from $10 to $50 apiece, but Plan B has the largest market share and is a de-facto synonym for the morning-after pill.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 30 June 2022
  • Baathism — a synonym for pan-Arabic socialism — ruined the post-war Middle East.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Never mind that its title is a synonym for rubbish, and evokes images of teeming garbage dumps and the overstuffed closets of hoarders.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • For a long time, being Mapuche was a synonym for mockery and their suffering was regarded as something in the past.
    — Jeffrey Sipe, Variety, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The greatest misused word is encryption, which is often used as a synonym for anonymization.
    — Sonal Rattan, Forbes, 4 June 2021

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