- plural of synonym.
synonyms
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Because they’re synonyms — they are one and the same.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
"Heating and warming are synonyms, in some sense, but not always. Sometimes 'heating' relates more to temperature change rather than simply the temperature itself, and that's where some of the confusion arises."
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2024
Global warming and climate change are often used interchangeably as synonyms, but scientists prefer to use “climate change” when describing the complex shifts now affecting our planet’s weather and climate systems.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 14, 2024
She speaks in perfectly formed paragraphs and deploys what feels like a thesaurus’s worth of synonyms.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2023
We looked at a version of this principle when we saw that to help the reader keep track of a single entity across multiple mentions, a writer should not flip-flop between unnecessary synonyms.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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