synonymous
adjective
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Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2024
Since directing best picture winner Dances with Wolves, Costner has become synonymous with the western genre, and emerged as one of its biggest champions.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 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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