How to Use synonym in a Sentence

synonym

noun
  • But is Google’s reign as a synonym for ‘search’ nearing its end?
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Fan, we are told frequently, should not be a synonym for customer.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • There was something arbitrary about the way this term and its synonyms were bandied about.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • In fact, a synonym in Italian for tuorlo (yolk) is rosso (red).
    — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2019
  • And not all synonyms—at least in the algorithm’s view—are true synonyms.
    — Mykola Lukashuk, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But White in this context is a synonym for awkward or uncool.
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
  • It is sometimes used as a synonym for uncouth or a simpleton.
    — David Luhnow and Juan Montes, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Resetting the line of scrimmage is a synonym for stopping the run.
    — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Style is not a synonym for entertainment here.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Culture to me is the perfect synonym for longer tables, for sharing.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • In countless languages and religions, breath is a synonym for life, as well as for the spirit or soul.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Recession is a word, which is loosely, and wrongly, used as a synonym for slowdown.
    — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 26 Apr. 2020
  • Weird what words former Rockies turn into synonyms.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Over the past decade, the word ‘startup’ has become a synonym for quick success and often quick failure.
    — Dmitry Mishunin, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Writers are often taught to use synonyms to keep content engaging.
    — Vin Sonpal, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • The word itself has become a synonym for something that is real and tangible.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The word is a whimsical synonym for fate, the unpredictable forces that lead people to their destiny.
    — Rachel Syme, New York Times, 9 June 2017
  • Using synonyms that don’t appear in the advert might cause the system to miss you entirely.
    — Andrew Fennell, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This is what the app economy, often a synonym for the new economy, demands.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 30 July 2019
  • The danger is thus acute of Agile becoming a synonym for cost-cutting.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • First, use synonyms or build a different, shorter sentence with the exact same meaning.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Commentators have taken to treating gay and its synonyms as an insult.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Burt Bacharach, songwriter who was a ‘synonym for pop-music success,’ dies at 94.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Of course, fairness and competition aren’t synonyms.
    — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • If that term seems overused today, the short’s title provides both a case study and a clunky synonym for the year’s trendiest accusation.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Álex Quiñónez was the synonym of humility and a clear example of resilience.
    — Fox News, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The name also is a relative synonym for the dam, Strong Incentive.
    — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Never mind that its title is a synonym for rubbish, and evokes images of teeming garbage dumps and the overstuffed closets of hoarders.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Even the casual use of the term refugee on the streets of Warsaw as a synonym for Ukrainian was noteworthy.
    — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 3 May 2022
  • Body-on-frame isn't a synonym for primitive, as evinced by the Escalade's underpinnings.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2020

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