1
as in stain
a mark of guilt or disgrace
hoping to avoid the onus of failure by lowering expectations ahead of time
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2
as in blame
responsibility for wrongdoing or failure
he perpetually tries to shift the onus for any mistakes onto other team members
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Recent Examples of onus
When the law goes into effect, the onus will not be on TikTok but rather on app stores to stop making the social media platform available to users.
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 17 Jan. 2025
The moves from the Biden administration will put the onus on the Trump administration to decide whether to enforce the sanctions.
—Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
This may shift the onus on support for Kyiv to fall on other allies, particularly in Europe, where a changing political leadership since his election could complicate matters.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
This law is really aimed at making normative change, that the onus should fall on platforms.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 17 Jan. 2025
The moves from the Biden administration will put the onus on the Trump administration to decide whether to enforce the sanctions.
—Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
This may shift the onus on support for Kyiv to fall on other allies, particularly in Europe, where a changing political leadership since his election could complicate matters.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
This law is really aimed at making normative change, that the onus should fall on platforms.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for onus
Noun
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This chic mini wallet is crafted from premium Saffiano leather, known for its durability against scratches, stains, and daily wear.—
Taylor Jean Stephan,
People.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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The county’s legal action comes amid worldwide attention on PFAS, used widely to create products resistant to water, stains, and heat, including food packaging, non-stick pans, clothing, rain jackets, furniture, carpeting, plastic turf, paints, electronics products and a host of other goods.—
Ethan Baron,
The Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2025
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The Safety Board will not find blame in the DCA crash.—
Matthew L. Wald,
The New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2025
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The apparent acceptance of responsibility is a departure from past lawsuits, where government agencies are ultra-cautious about liability and assigning blame, Green said.—
Nick Penzenstadler,
USA TODAY,
1 Feb. 2025
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Shoutout to everyone who’s been able to break out of that stigma that Nigerian artists should only make Afrobeats, or African artists should only make Afrobeats.—
Heran Mamo,
Billboard,
30 Jan. 2025
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When discussing crop tops, parents should avoid reinforcing that stigma with their words.—
Taylor Grothe,
Parents,
29 Jan. 2025
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Rather than dwelling in guilt, choose one family or charity to help.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
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In many lights, the guilt pales in comparison to what Rodriguez and Dario endured with Alessia in the two months after Vida arrived.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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Such stories also give permission to new forms, while protecting designs from too strong a taint of faddishness, or of strenuous icon-making.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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While Weiss had rejected any taint of politics in his approach, the investigation was the subject of much congressional scrutiny.—
Rebecca Beitsch,
The Hill,
13 Jan. 2025
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Unfair to ex-felons One of the worst blots on Bondi’s résumé was one of her first acts as attorney general.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
14 Jan. 2025
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Red Wine or Dark-Colored Food Stains As quickly as possible, lift away any solids and blot, blot, blot away the moisture.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
28 Oct. 2024
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Might the title speak to a shame the exhibition itself sought to overcome?—
Richard Meyer,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2025
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West’s hellfire-and-locust symbolism parodied biblical judgment, but such shame no longer applies to current secular permissiveness or the progressive ideology in Marxist writer Mike Davis’s City of Quartz (1990), famous for its subversive condemnation of Los Angeles’s capitalist elitism.—
Armond White,
National Review,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Onus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/onus. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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