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Brennan and Dale wear tuxedoes and sneakers to job interviews; Scott’s character’s terribleness is rendered metonymically through his attachment to a Bluetooth earpiece.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2016

But they now define those wars – and they do so through their horror, with the suffering they portray linked metonymically to the conflicts in which it occurred.

From The Guardian • Sep. 9, 2014

The word hukm, which commonly signifies the exercise of government or judicial power, is here used metonymically in the sense of the place of dominion, the seat of government.

From Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp by Payne, John

The name was then metonymically transferred to the repository in which that relic was preserved, and afterwards, by a natural expansion, became the ordinary designation of the smaller sanctuaries.

From Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various