As a student, when Nascar was a synonym for political regression, he staged a mini Indy 500, calling it "Young Wight Grand Prix".
Centrism sometimes makes sense as a tactic or a strategy in other words, when it's a synonym for compromise.
More than a few of Mr. Ryan's mourners were white-haired men who also had landed on the Bowery when it was a synonym for skid row.
"As a noun," reads the ordinarily sensible New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, "summit may designate the level or format of a meeting (the issue will go to the summit) but is jargon when used as a synonym for meeting (they held a summit)." As they say in the Pentagon, I nonconcur.
Another usage of concepts in which there has been poor agreement is the usage of the endogenous/exogenous dichotomy and top-down/bottom-up dichotomy, especially when used as a synonym to the voluntary/involuntary attention dichotomy.
Shakespeare, in 1593, felt it necessary to place it near a synonym: "when their brave hope, bold Hector, marched to field".
In the redevelopment of the postal building, the paper argues, policy invocations of culture were aimed at de-politicising cultural activities in post-2001/2002 crisis Argentina, when politics had become a synonym of corruption and mismanagement.
Using a multidisciplinary approach, Binney and colleagues found that left lateral anterior temporal cortex and adjacent anterior fusiform gyrus are activated when healthy volunteers perform a synonym judgment task; moreover, these sites are associated with impaired performance by patients with SD on the same task.
"To be blunt, credit is successfully re-established when financial elites say, 'When.' Credit is close to a synonym for the mood of the ruling class.
That's what happens when you use "territories" as a synonym, or euphemism, for "Muslims".
