While the actions of authorities may have saved lives, the name of Amoy Gardens is now synonymous with one of the worst viral outbreaks of recent times – and proof, if we needed it, that excellent healthcare and proper surveillance are vital in protecting cities even as they become more interconnected and vulnerable than ever before.
For me, being an actor was synonymous with wandering round with a gin and tonic and plotting how to murder your wife by cutting the brakes on her car, having offered to fix them ("You fools, anyone could have told you I wasn't a qualified mechanic").
Even if the corporate goal is pure, self-interested profit-making, it will be dressed up to appear synonymous with the wider, national interest.
Sturgeon, who would later do more than anyone to make Scottish nationalism synonymous with a centre-left agenda, sought to depict independence as both constitutional and personal.
Around the club Barker's known for being unfailingly nice, not a trait you'd describe as synonymous with his employers right now.
Most Australians don't know – or don't want to know – about the extent of the violence that accompanied European colonial settlement and that is still synonymous for black Australia with Australia Day. Thirty years after Arthur Phillip sailed into Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788, it was left to Macquarie to celebrate this special anniversary for British colonialism.
Designed by Renzo Piano, the new Whitney Museum of American Art stands in an area that used to be synonymous with sleaze, danger and the industrial butchers that gave the area its name.
The party's founder and Topolánek's enemy, President Václav Klaus, is Europe's leading climate change denier and views the European Union as synonymous with the Soviet Union.
So does she find herself urging them to lighten up? "Well I hope I don't tell them, I hope I make it happen!" No designer's work and personal style is as synonymous with youth as Quant's.
It has weathered crises in the past, notably in the 1990s when allegations that it used sweatshop labour prompted then-chief executive Phil Knight to declare that the "Nike product has become synonymous with slave wages, forced overtime and arbitrary abuse".
An empty room here is synonymous with sad glances.
