synonymous
adjective
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Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
As the Grateful Dead hit the road in the ‘80s and ‘90s, 420 became synonymous with the band’s fan base for lighting up the bud.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2024
Over the years, Chang has become somewhat synonymous in the U.S. with Korean fine dining, microwave cooking and a host of Asian supermarket goods.
—Rachel Askinasi, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2024
The trial’s influence was even greater on a family that would become virtually synonymous with reality TV in the decades to come.
—Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
Instead, Leverkusen has become almost synonymous with agonizing defeat.
—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2024
Ishizaki’s first restaurant opened last June in the Carmichael strip mall space formerly home to Shige Sushi, long synonymous with Sacramento sushi elder Shige Tokita.
—Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
In addition to owning dozens of restaurants spread around the globe, the Spanish chef has become synonymous with food aid through his organization World Central Kitchen, which dispatches chefs and other volunteers to feed people in the wake of wars and natural disasters.
—Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
Ethernet, meanwhile, had become synonymous with coaxial cable connections that used a method called carrier sense multiple access with collision detection for managing transmissions.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2024
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synonymous
adjective
from Latin synonymus "synonymous," from Greek synōnymos, literally, "having the same name," from syn- "together, along with" and onyma, onoma "name" — related to anonymous, symposium, synagogue, synchronous
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