adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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Education and socialization were almost synonymous in his view.
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It has shifted to the mere expression of a wish, so that would have is almost synonymous with would like.
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Research and higher education seem so inseparable that they are almost synonymous .
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For some groups in Britain today, evangelism is almost synonymous with church planting.
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At a time when change was almost synonymous with evil, or at least decline, this was indeed provocative.
as
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Effectiveness and mistake avoidance are treated as synonymous , which is often overly simplistic.
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Illiterate and undesirable are treated as synonymous .
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How significant is the development of fairness, whether it be seen as synonymous with natural justice or in juxtaposition thereto?
virtually
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Indeed, for many other writers the two are seen as virtually synonymous .
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They not only believe in the necessity of mistakes, they see them as virtually synonymous with growth and progress.
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Ferns are virtually synonymous with shade.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Activity, they suggest, is not synonymous with learning.
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For many people conservation is synonymous with nature reserves.
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It was once synonymous with independence, self-determination and black achievement.
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The point is that the word fresh used to be synonymous with high quality.
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The town is synonymous with stone.
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This company bears the name Royalbion, which is synonymous with Britain itself.