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Tag Name "Synonyms" (13)

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English can be tricky because there are so many false cognates, but sometimes, as long the idea conveyed is not wrong, these false cognates can themselves offer synonyms or lead to a better alternative word or phrase in translation.
Adam Morris
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At heart, uncertainty and investing are synonyms.
Benjamin Graham
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New synonyms for sex: Going to a family function, getting the hard part over with, anti-fillet. Get it? Sex!
Dana Gould
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Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.
Frank Herbert
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In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.
George Balanchine
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
Jorge Luis Borges
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You have tens, hundreds of thousands of people in government, and just as many among contractors, who feel totally comfortable writing at the top of the document internal use only, official use only, and a million other synonyms, all of which amount to none of your business to the public.
Ted Gup
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Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.
Anne Rice
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People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.
Bo Burnham
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The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.
Edmund Burke
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The only distinction I'd make is between film and telly, I guess. Film, movies, and cinema are all synonyms as far as I'm concerned but telly is different. It's just a plodding we've-done-this-scene, we've-done-that-scene and it never becomes this new other thing.
Geoff Dyer
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry Adams
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Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.
Pema Chodron