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Example sentences for: synonyms
How can you use “synonyms” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Also, if you enter jump , you get the synonyms for that; but if you entered jumped , you get the (same) synonyms but inflected--including the variants leapt , leaped for leap . All in all, for a primitive system, it is not too bad; but you would have to be in love with your computer to use it in preference to the far more complete books of synonyms available (especially The Synonym Finder , Rodale in the U.S. and Canada, Longman elsewhere, which offers more than 800,000 synonyms, more than three times the number listed in any other synonym book).
The religious refrain in the charter of our independence differs radically from the flat, secular tone of the 1787 Constitution, which makes no reference to any of the words, “God,” “Creator,” “Providence,” “divine,” or any of their synonyms.
It is similar, in principle, to finding a synonym in a synonym dictionary and then successively looking up its synonyms to find their synonyms.
Perhaps the Proximity people thought that they had got round that little problem by giving the same definition for each of the items in the list; but we know that only very rarely are two synonyms bi-unique (which is another way of saying that if A = B, B does not necessarily always equal A), an ineluctable fact of language.
In Grambs's book, the single-word synonyms work fairly well, but, as elsewhere, the system breaks down when trying to anticipate where a user ought to look to find a word: not everyone is likely to choose the same “reverse” concept.
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