synonyms
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"Repair" and "fix" may be synonyms, but your trustworthy Midwestern TV dad understands the difference.
From Salon • Aug. 7, 2024
Because they’re synonyms — they are one and the same.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 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
Careful writers and discerning readers delight in the profusion of words in the English lexicon, no two of which are exact synonyms.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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