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Nor do its plural forms, the highfalutin thesauri, or thesauruses, which sounds like a prehistoric creature.

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Let's give thesauri to all songwriters incapable of dreaming up more original ways to voice that sentiment.

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Why, at the moment the audience should be melting into tears over the death of this salesman, does the playwright introduce a word that sets viewers to thumbing their internal thesauri?

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Ratings plummeted after the first episode, and critics dug out their thesauri to find new words for "awful."

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There were then no short cuts of learning, no comprehensive lexicons, no dictionaries of antiquities, no carefully prepared thesauri of mythology and history.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter