Sentence examples for a generic synonym for from inspiring English sources

If Gillette becomes a generic synonym for "razor," a competitor that uses the word "gillette" to describe its products might be able to get away with it.

Microscopic examination of the preserved type material revealed the species to be Sarcosphaera coronaria (then called S. crassa), and Caulocarpa is now considered a generic synonym of Sarcosphaera.

It is a noun, a verb, an adjective – a synonym for inertia, neglect and despair.

"Hard-wired" is generally a synonym for genetically determined.

(In its earlier go-round, the Blue Light Special became a synonym for generic, off-the-rack clothing, and was killed in 1991).

He writes: "Some readers... take 'race' for a tragic noun, a synonym for conflict and isolation.

For others, it refers only to East Asians, or may be a synonym for the more generic Asian [ 13, 14].

Being a teenager is practically a synonym for insecurity.

"Mayor Hahn calls it a modernization -- it's a synonym for expansion".

In a business setting, "rules" are a synonym for expectations.

This trafficking is, in fact, little more than a synonym for a failed asylum policy.