Since, it has become a synonym for the condition in which most of society finds itself.
Today the vehicle is a trendsetter and a synonym for forward-looking battery-electric-driven urban mobility of the future.
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Stripped of its pejorative connotations, stereotyping is just a synonym for generalizing about people and their likely behavior.
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Blame the power of marketing like Heinz with ketchup and Kleenex with tissue, Thomas's has always seemed less a brand name than a synonym.
If you look it up in the dictionary, one definition for the word has it as a synonym for an underhand plot or conspiracy.
The fabled city, whose names is sometimes used in the West as a synonym for a faraway place, was at the center of trans-Sahara trade in earlier times.
The DP's reformist platform includes "a switch to a welfare-oriented society" and a drastic "disassembling and rebirth" of Kasumigaseki (a district where government offices are located, and hence a synonym for the bureaucracy).
The liberals who deploy them mean them in their full pejorative sense: with "jihad" shorthand for a brutal war of fanaticism, "mullah" implying a religious fanatic, "Shariah" a synonym for an inhumane system of law, and so on.
You synonym for swindler, Billie Sol!
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Erdogan's softly peddled but remorselessly consolidated Islamism was embraced by senior American officials intent on reducing democracy to a synonym for elections rather than acknowledging that democracy is only meaningful as a system of laws and practices that engender liberal egalitarianism.
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