anagram
noun
a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters.
anagrams
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pluralof anagram.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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These are wild anagrams for a stain on satin, giving material heft to ephemeral language.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
They found that subjects awakened from REM sleep solved 32% more anagrams than subjects who were interrupted during non-REM sleep.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
This is a direct reference to the author Alan Conway's penchant for making anagrams.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2022
Recognizing that trait in each other, Seth and Kimberly bond over their parallel irregularities: his obsession with anagrams and her genetically scrambled codons.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
“Imagine a situation” was a game she'd invented where Colin found the anagrams and then Katherine imagined an anagrammatic situation.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
