Example Sentences

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Changes wrought by work-from-home culture — especially the demand to be "always on" and mechanisms of surveillance from the metonymic "algorithmic boss" — have prompted a rising tide of worker dissatisfaction.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2022

As dams become degraded by climate change and are decommissioned by planners, solar panels and especially wind turbines have come to be seen as metonymic of the sustainable energy future.

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2021

But for fans of his wordplay, there was a metonymic moment, just a few songs in, when the band played, “Lord Knows.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 21, 2015

The Hundred Names is a metonymic reference to "the common man."

From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2011

There are some instances in which the Scriptures themselves reveal the character and limit the meaning of the metonymic passages.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh