It occurs to us that Friedersdorf's error lies in mistaking the Declaration for a thesaurus.

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Patrick's Day parades and plumb the thesaurus for new superlatives to express the depth of their affection for Israel.

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If you want to be a genre writer, I say forget the "rules, " leave your thesaurus on the shelf, and just be a storyteller.

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It is easy to search by word or phrase and skip around on a tablet, or pull up references such as a dictionary or thesaurus.

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My thesaurus lists vanity, conceit, self-importance and self-absorption.

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The state, however, finds this clarity insufficient, believes that all definitions entail multiple words (or a dictionary would be a thesaurus), and so elaborates on its own, creates similarity out of disparity, and changes the meaning of these terms in the process.

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But lists like this, besides providing an ego-check, do serve a purpose: they give us the chance to put the slow weeks before the holidays to get cozy with the thesaurus button (Shift-F7 for those not in-the-know) and rework out professional paperwork before the new year comes calling.

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