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- noun Plural form of
thesaurus .
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Examples
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Dictionaries come in handy, as do the thesauruses ... thesauri ... however you spell the danged plurality for it.
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I was a far cry from the little girl who had opted for thesauruses and anatomy books over marriage fantasies.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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We are waiting, always waiting, for a game that can send us running to the blogosphere to discuss -- "here, here's one," we gasp, prizing Flower closely, thumbing through the indices of academia to find quotes about art, cracking our thesauruses for synonyms of narrative, homophones for wind.
Archive 2009-02-01 SVGL 2009
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We are waiting, always waiting, for a game that can send us running to the blogosphere to discuss -- "here, here's one," we gasp, prizing Flower closely, thumbing through the indices of academia to find quotes about art, cracking our thesauruses for synonyms of narrative, homophones for wind.
I'd Rather Let The Flowers Keep Doing What They Do Best SVGL 2009
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I was a far cry from the little girl who had opted for thesauruses and anatomy books over marriage fantasies.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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Dictionaries come in handy, as do the thesauruses ... thesauri ... however you spell the danged plurality for it.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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This little gadget features a voice recorder, notebook, a camera, video camera, the internet and tons of apps, including dictionaries, thesauruses and e-readers.
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This is what has happened with Janelle Monáe, a singer so exciting that writers are flipping deep into their adulation thesauruses looking for new ways to express the opinion.
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She was part of a small team of young women who scoured thesauruses and atlases and encyclopedias of Greek mythology for obscure names that would bait people into buying things.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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She was part of a small team of young women who scoured thesauruses and atlases and encyclopedias of Greek mythology for obscure names that would bait people into buying things.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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