Doug Liman

Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren't all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros.

American Director

Lysander Spooner

If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.

American Philosopher

Sam Kean

Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of modern medicine. Genetics owes a huge debt to the humble fruit fly. There's almost no branch of the life sciences, in fact, that hasn't leaned heavily on one animal or another.

American Writer

Edward Thorndike

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

American Psychologist

Toni Kroos

Zidane transmits a very clear idea to the players. He doesn't need to give a 20 minute motivational talk, he doesn't need it. With his presence alone, he achieves what he wants - his personality is synonymous with success.

German Athlete

Mother Angelica

A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land.

American Educator

Emraan Hashmi

I am tired of kissing on screen. I have to do it because it is synonymous with me. Also, the producers and directors want to add that element. I don't give it too much importance.

Indian Actor

Eric Dane

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.

American Actor

Sonali Bendre

Marriage is not synonymous to change but a new dimension to life.

Indian Actress

Isabelle Adjani

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

French Actress

Used when two things mean exactly the same, no subtle differences.

Absolute Match

Often implies a widespread agreement on what a term is known for.

Unspoken Implication

Meanings may vary by context; not all synonyms are interchangeable.

Context Specific

Reflects a strong connection or association, rather than exact meaning.

Identity by Association

May suggest characteristics or traits often associated with the term.

Implied traits

Some words can become synonymous due to their historical significance.

Historical Connections

 it's simply because they wanted to keep us alive. All of my black friends were raised with the same message, the talk, given to us when we became old enough to be mistaken for a nail ready to be hammered to the ground, when people made our melanin synonymous with something to be feared. But what does it do to a child

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 However, I also think it's got to do with the fact that bats come out at night, and we don't really understand them. We're a little frightened by things that can perceive the world slightly differently than us. Bats are usually synonymous with some type of evil events. They are the perpetrators in horror movies,

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 I have a question regarding political correctness, and I'm When did political correctness become synonymous with silencing, versus a way that we speak about other people to show them respect and preserve their dignity? Well, I think the conservative media really pounded this issue

Political common ground...

 There's a lot to be said about trust and love, if you know that those two words are synonymous for design. I had a very, very meaningful relationship with my team that day, and it's stayed that way ever since. And I hope that you too find that there's more to design,

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 Soon, aspirin became synonymous with acetylsalicylic acid. As its influence grew, aspirin was found to ease not just pain, but also many inflammation-related problems, like rheumatoid arthritis, pericarditis, which enflames the fluid-filled sack around the heart,

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 to make them feel much more welcome. What I wish to do is make every Parkinson's patient feel like my uncle felt that day. He told me that I made him feel like his old self again. "Smart" in today's world has become synonymous to high tech,

Simple hacks for life...

 but it is not his legacy which echoes through the centuries. Thousands of years later, the name of the slave who made the world’s mightiest empire tremble has become synonymous with freedom– and the courage to fight for it.

From enslavement to...

 and I believe we can build that world. Full stop. But in order to get there, we have to dramatically shift a culture that propagates the idea that vulnerability is synonymous with permission

Tarana Burke: Me Too is...

 length of 14 feet it's also the world's fastest snake zipping along it up to 12 miles per hour its head is often described as coughing and for many in Africa this snake is synonymous with

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 Compassion can be synonymous with empathy. It can be joined with the harder work of forgiveness and reconciliation, but it can also express itself in the simple act of presence.

Synonymous