AND THE MATRIX – THE SYNONYM FOR MATRIX IS COMPLEXITY.
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"One minute is just a synonym for short," he offered.
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I.N.A.S.F.S." spells out "Gay is Not a Synonym for Shitty.
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Sounds like a pretty good synonym for "Bull" to me.
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Nowadays, the words "Kama Sutra" are a synonym for sex.
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In a business setting, "rules" are a synonym for expectations.
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To be clear, Latinx is not a synonym for Mexican.
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"Average guy?" is NORM because that's a synonym for average.
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As in, a synonym for "definitely," with the "y" removed?
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Love is a synonym for domination, or maybe for submission.
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Booties is just the cutesy synonym for ankle boots. 2.
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A synonym for the "pre-" word is on the left.
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I also just thought about AIR as a synonym for SONG.
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Sometimes the term is simply used as a synonym for popularity.
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In this puzzle, it's a noun and a synonym for MAID.
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"Pop" is a synonym for "hit," and the answer is SWAT.
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Wine in American culture has long been a synonym for snobbery.
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It has an answer that is a synonym for that verbalization.
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I think we just came up with a new synonym for asshole.
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Each theme entry contains the word HEX, a synonym for a spell.
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" The trouble is that "natural" is decidedly not a synonym for "healthy.
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"Jazz combo?" is not asking for a synonym for a musical group.
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It was even turned into a much-debated synonym for gentrification: Shoreditchification.
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Serendipity is essentially a synonym for good luck, but it's hardly random.
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APPAREL. In this puzzle, however, the correct synonym for "Clothing" is RAIMENT.
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Look "in firepower" for a synonym for "Takeback," and you'll find REPO.
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But too often this is just a synonym for the erosion of quality.
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It's named after their nicknames for each other -- BB, a synonym for baby.
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It&aposs also a synonym for the more commonly-used phrase economic man.
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Which when looking up the synonym for alternative fact, it means bull waste.
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This is what the app economy, often a synonym for the new economy, demands.
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Technically, the word is a synonym for stoning, but it sounds much less violent.
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" It always rings false when a millionaire uses "democratic" as a synonym for "lucrative.
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Compromise to many Republicans began to be regarded as just a synonym for capitulation.
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The word "stir" is a synonym for jail, and the answer is PRISON RIOT.
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"My b" is short for "my bad," which is a good synonym for OOPS.
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The dictionary actually lists it as a synonym, but who am I to argue?
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" You need to find a synonym for "Do well" using the letters from "E.
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OTOH is text speak for "on the other hand," a synonym for "However …" 41D.
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"Bauhaus" has become, in short, a catchall synonym for modernism in architecture and design.
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That somewhere there might be those for whom "Tiesto" was a synonym for transcendence.
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A chapter in his most recent book is called "privatisation is a synonym for robbery".
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British people of a certain age had a "telephone voice," yet another synonym for posh.
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At the height of her fame, her name was a synonym for jet-set living.
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Each time I searched for a synonym, the zippy results produced a surge of pleasure.
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Today, the synonym for "Tommyrot!" is PAH and the KOI swim happily in their POND.
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Bethlem's famous nickname "Bedlam" has migrated into English as a synonym for chaos and confusion.
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These days, the term "ethnic cleansing" is uniformly understood to be a synonym for genocide.
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All too often at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, normal has been a synonym for slow.
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But strength is an ingredient of leadership, not a substitute or a synonym for it.
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If you mean you'll stop at nothing Maybe you're using passionate as a synonym for dogged.
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Though many people reasonably consider hot girl summer a synonym for partying, flirting, hooking up, etc.
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The word 'introvert' is often thrown around as a synonym for shy or even socially awkward.
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There, "politics" is usually a synonym for "corruption," a feeling that many Americans can empathize with.
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Turns out, any young person could tell you that busted is just a synonym for ugly.
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All you have to do from there is figure out which synonym fits that letter pattern.
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" Odds are good that the definition is "great reviews," because there's no real synonym for "Vera's.
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Nature becomes a secular stand-in for God, and the word 'natural' a synonym for 'holy.
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Similarly, at 54A, "Improvised" is a clue for OFF THE CUFF, with CUFF being the synonym.
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The jet-set era had been defined, and Gucci has since become a synonym for it.
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If for Anca and Ines performance is a synonym for conformity, for Winfried it's the opposite.
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Crane acknowledged that the Astros "broke the rules" but refused to use the more emphatic synonym.
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A synonym for "cut," that looks the same "upside down or right side up," is MOW.
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Rocket science is a synonym for something that is really difficult to do for a reason.
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" The top U.S. diplomat said Washington would carry out "stabilization initiatives" such as clearing landmines and restoring basic utilities in areas no longer under Islamic State control, while making clear that "'stabilization' is not a synonym for open-ended nation-building or a synonym for reconstruction.
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The jovial young Dutchman had apparently gathered that 'shitloads' was a colourful synonym for the bland 'lots'.
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I use "mind" as a synonym for consciousness; it's the experience we have of our inner life.
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" Media reports referred to "election hacking" — as if "election" is a synonym for "John Podesta's gmail account.
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And a participant who didn't report an aversion would typically list a synonym like 'wet' or 'damp.
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The word is a whimsical synonym for fate, the unpredictable forces that lead people to their destiny.
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"It (self-determination) is a synonym of peace, not of war," Andreu Van den Eyndehe told the court.
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The "proper industrial strategy" she has called for is too often a synonym for empty or bad ideas.
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The first word uttered in "Sausage Party" is a popular synonym for excrement, which is a bit counterintuitive.
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But, but, but: That's not a synonym for "independent" because the U.S. remains deeply connected to global markets.
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For example, at 143A, the "Slimy outdoor pest" is a GARDEN SLUG, with SLUG being the hitting synonym.
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"The power" was a synonym for the one-party system before 1990 and all who profited from it.
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Remember the English word "amicable," a synonym for "friendly," if either of these terms is difficult to recall.
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" As he took leave of UN leadership last week, Ban said that "Aleppo is now a synonym for hell.
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" That's how the prefix "cyber" has slowly but inevitably become its own word, used as a synonym for "cybersecurity.
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Correction (December 18th, 2017): A previous version of this explainer used the word emoticon as a synonym for emoji.
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He has said he is "repulsed" by gay people and used the word "chinky" as a synonym for Chinese.
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The word "gay" was used as a synonym for "bad" to describe inanimate things; it wasn't a tolerant place.
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If Rotthaus has his way, Bayer will become a synonym for quality soccer just as it is for aspirin.
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As a sensationalist report of 1891 put it, they were "a synonym for all that is doubtful and mysterious".
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While some mistakenly use it as a synonym for Monaco, Monte Carlo is actually one of four Monaco districts.
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" She then goes on to describe the outfit as "snatchy"—and she's not talking about the synonym for "grab.
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I am not sure how "Pro" is a synonym of PLUS, but I have faith that it is. 18A.
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They knew that "affirmative action," whatever its benefits as a form of social engineering, was a synonym for mediocrity.
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Much of that resource is now conveniently stored "off site," which I believe is a synonym for New Jersey.
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But you can redefine both words — UTTER meaning "to talk" and RUBBISH meaning "trash" — and get a wackier synonym.
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Even though her name became a synonym for priggishness, I observe, Victoria was a sexy little thing, wasn't she?
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Once a synonym for conservatism, this wealthy overwhelmingly white region is now one-fifth Asian and one-third Latino.
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One element will not be adjusted: the nameplate that has come to be the visual synonym of The Times.
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In this case, "Makes amends" is the synonym and Easton is to be anagrammed, so the answer is ATONES.
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While Cartier is now a fixture in every major city, a synonym for international panache, its origins were modest.
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"Helicopter parenting" is often used as a synonym for intensive parenting, and, more confusingly, both permissive and authoritarian parenting.
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This wine is 55 percent of moscatel, most likely a synonym for muscat of Alexandria, and 45 percent riesling.
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Still, the bulk of Gentleman in Moscow is so much fun that its occasional synonym abuse is hardly noticeable.
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That should clear up anyone's idea that being complicit is a synonym for "assisting," because it's not a positive action.
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" The problem, of course, is that "plain enough for everybody to understand" should not be a synonym for "patently false.
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"Certain discrete Russia-related matters core to its investigation" may turn out to be the world's longest synonym for collusion.
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Screening children is a discretionary federal expense, and in much of American politics, discretionary spending is a synonym for waste.
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The auto-da-fé took place in 19933, and the publicity turned Frey's name into a synonym for memoir fraud.
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" Well, let's see what we have left after we isolate CUBA: We have STANK, which is a synonym for "Smelled.
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The word originates from Greek and Latin for a "furious rush of water," so it makes sense as a synonym.
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Last summer "alt-right," though it carried overtones of extremism, was not an outright synonym for ideologies like Mr. Spencer's.
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We let ourselves off the hook when we reflexively use "morally superior" as disparagement, as a synonym for toxic condescension.
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IOActive, in response, seemed puzzled that Panasonic was attacking all this as "hypothetical," since hypothetical is not a synonym for impossible.
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Along the way, bespoke has devolved from a unique experience to simply a synonym for another catchword of the day: artisanal.
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Lately, though, it has become a synonym for "forthright", meaning honest and frank, to the point it has virtually displaced it.
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Take "the first hint of stereotypically" — that word's first letter, or hint, is S. Take "hokey material," a synonym for CORN.
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For too long "green" was viewed as a synonym for a project that was boutique, uneconomical, liberal, sissy and vaguely French.
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Mr. Trudeau wraps up his set by naming the entries BUZZWORDS, because giving someone a BUZZ is another synonym for calling.
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The Great Engineer became internationally famous as the Great Humanitarian; his name was used as a synonym for charity in Finnish.
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Mr. Halperin's theme entries take the form (ITEM OR NAME) (SYNONYM FOR "AND OTHERS" THAT SOUND LIKE THE ITEM OR NAME).
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And so even as the situation has changed, many American policymakers have repurposed "denuclearization" as a synonym for North Korea's disarmament.
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Every time I submitted a word for a definition—or for a synonym, in the thesaurus—the widget would freeze up.
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Will suggested replacing BRO with a longer synonym, so I decided on ILEDUDIABLE after searches for *PAHC* and *EKOLB* fell short.
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In "Operation Mudhen"---an apparent synonym for "muckraker"---a team of CIA agents began following Anderson when he met with sources.
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"If people know what 'crypto' is, they should know it as a real technology—not as some synonym for Bitcoin," he said.
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Simple supply and demand tells us that in this situation, the cost of that capital — a synonym for interest rates — will fall.
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As a result, most documentation either ignored this level outright, or told people to treat it as a synonym for Flash Override.
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They should draft the Homeland Security Department appropriations bill to fund the concrete wish of the president, with some synonym strings attached.
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"Isn't this game the same as ... " and said a seven-letter anatomical synonym for "jerk" that made my kids giggle in shock.
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I remember driving down the freeway a year ago and hearing someone on the radio use JOCKEYS as a synonym for underwear.
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The Paris St Germain player has become a synonym for petulance and he gave an example of why with 72 minutes gone.
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The term is not a synonym for transgender or transsexual and should only be used if someone self-identifies as gender non-conforming.
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"Moreira is the prototype and synonym of corruption in Mexico," Juan E. Pardinas, director of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, said on Tuesday.
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The news comes as the U.S. tech stalwart and photocopying synonym struggles to cope with an eroding demand for office printers and photocopies.
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"Jose Luis Cuevas will always be remembered as a synonym of liberty, creation and universality," Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Twitter.
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At 1A, we have the clue "Zip," and we're looking for a four-letter word that could be a synonym for the clue.
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Never mind that its title is a synonym for rubbish, and evokes images of teeming garbage dumps and the overstuffed closets of hoarders.
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Whatever the reasons, the simple fact is that Trump isn't a populist, unless we redefine populism as nothing but a synonym for racism.
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Success, however, would resurrect what was once one of the most admired American brand names — one that was long a synonym for luxury.
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Do not use as a synonym for homosexual unless it appears in the formal, capitalized name of an organization or in quoted matter.
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The revealer answer is GET THE PICTURE, and the last word in each of the theme entries is a synonym for a picture.
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In everyday usage, it's a synonym for "danger"—the possibility that something bad will happen to us if we take a particular action.
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WEINTRAUB: For MACBOOK AIR, I'm going to check the definition of "air" in the musical sense, since it's our least common song synonym.
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We throw the term around as a synonym for anything resembling a golf course, but most golfers will never actually play a links.
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I can imagine lots of other entries that pair a noun in the first word with a synonym for SONG in the second word.
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Outside of popular culture all synonyms for "blackness" in the dictionary are nasty and negative, while every synonym for "whiteness" is positive and beautiful.
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We need to be clear about this — the issue here is not a bug, glitch, error, or whatever other synonym you can conjure up.
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Much like the Kama Sutra, tantric sex has become a synonym for "wild sex" with little to no explanation of what that actually means.
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In North American English, it seems to have become a synonym for "I think" or "I believe" only in the last decade or so.
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He's heard liberals say "peer review" a lot, so he's gathered that it's some kind of synonym for "good" and just co-opted it.
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In a place where farming is a synonym for poverty, a growing number of young, college-educated Africans are trying to fight the stigma.
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Russell referred to Yellowhammer's work with "underhoused" people, a near-synonym for "homeless" that Njoku and Tinsley later confessed they had never heard before.
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In today's puzzle, the synonym would be SEWER, and the entry, after putting the first letter at the end, would be the crosswordese EWERS.
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"Prefix whose last two letters are a prefix meaning the same thing" is AMBI, and the prefix "BI-" is a synonym for that answer.
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There are more at 26A (think U.S. space exploration), 32A (a term for remnant), 36A (synonym for syllabuses), 45A (competed), 47A (also a hospital).
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Pro-tip: Every clue in a cryptic crossword must have a synonym or definition, either at the beginning of the clue or the end.
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"The word can be, and in fact usually is, used to mean 'affected with nausea'—that is, as a synonym for nauseated," it said.
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The term is not a synonym for transgender or transsexual and should only be used if someone self-identifies as non-binary and/or genderqueer.
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If this were another president, it might be possible to dress up his silence as strategic patience, or some other grand synonym for doing nothing.
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And indeed, Friston regards the Bayesian model as a foundation of the free energy principle ("free energy" is even a rough synonym for "prediction error").
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"Nasty" has been used as a synonym for "cool" and has also been used to describe a fierce woman -- especially one with exceptionally good abilities.
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He admires Mr. Putin, thinks free trade is a synonym for bad deals, and scoffs at a unique American role as guarantor of world order.
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"Spots before your eyes" could be talking about floaters, but not today; this clue is using the word "spots" as a casual synonym for ADS.
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The burglary and ensuing scandal led to the only resignation of a US president, changed American politics forever and became a synonym for government corruption.
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Sean Parker, whose name is a synonym for wild internet success, started his career with the all-out failure of a cybersecurity business called Crosswalk.
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He has already, after all, remade an old title ("designer") into one that encompasses pretty much every single synonym for that post in recent memory.
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Mr. Markey offers us a set of four two-word phrases, all of which have a synonym for the word "talk" as its first word.
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On the surface, it reads as if the clue is asking for a synonym for a great deal of movement, but it's trickier than that.
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The term is not a synonym for transgender or transsexual and should only be used if someone self-identifies as non-binary and/or genderqueer.
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In this case, the definition/synonym is "Party requests," and the wordplay is an anagram "for" Stevie: EVITES, the electronic invitation and party planning service.
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First, they need to fill in "Con _ a_ _ er" so you get a word; then, those three letters together become a synonym for that word.
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That party might have been a synonym for corruption, but it did manage to impose certain rules onto the narcos and keep violence in check.
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THE THING I AM REALLY ANGRY ABOUT TO SAY THAT GE WAS TRANSFORMED IS TO SAY THAT THE WORD TRANSFORM IS A SYNONYM FOR DESTRUCTION.
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LEMON DROPS are delicious, but I'm not aware of DROPS being a synonym for leaving, unless it's the kind of leaving that involves breaking up.
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" In New York on Tuesday, both Mayor Bill de Blasio and immigration professors said "family reunification" could be a less pejorative synonym for "chain migration.
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We went back and forth for a couple minutes, with me spitting out every synonym for "release" I could think of before it finally clicked.
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Grace explains that her mother thought "ass eating season" was sort of a synonym for "eating shit," a common phrase people use to say fall down.
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GLOBAL warming is often used as a synonym for climate change, and most discussions of the topic focus on the expected increase in average global temperatures.
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While "Oculus Rift" was no longer a synonym for "virtual reality," Oculus remained a central player, especially after Facebook purchased it for an estimated $2 billion.
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By then, the hostilities, which ground on mercilessly from 298 to 433, had turned the very name of the city into a synonym for war zone.
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The jet remains a go-to synonym for aerial enormity, one that a "Game of Thrones" director recently deployed to suggest the dimensions of a dragon.
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But in a region where most agriculture is still for subsistence — relying on cutlass, hoe and a hope for rain — farming is a synonym for poverty.
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At 17A, for example, we have the phrase NEW RELEASE, and RELEASE is a synonym for the word FREE in the 61A revealer, FREE AT LAST.
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Opinion Columnist Ever since the 2016 election, it's been common for some people to refer to whatever year we're in as a synonym for dystopian weirdness.
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However, a style manual for the federal government calls for capitalizing "Nation" and "Federal" when the words are used as a synonym for the United States.
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"Seamstress first to last" requires that we come up with a synonym for "seamstress" and then take the first letter and put it at the end.
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" While "rock idol" is the synonym for the answer ELVIS, the word "rock" is a signal that you will need to anagram the brand name "Levis.
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"I knew no more than the local greengrocer," she insists — the words "concentration camp" merely a synonym for "re-education," or so she thinks at first.
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"Binch": A playful synonym for "bitch," which became widespread after Twitter began hiding replies from (non-verified) accounts that use swear words and other vulgar language.
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Expect the battle over his confirmation to be bitter, ugly, nasty, and every other synonym you can find to describe the worst elements of our current politics.
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Do the politicians of France and Germany, who use the word Salafi/Salafist as though it were virtually a synonym for terrorist, need to know all this?
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Since "smog" is a synonym for "air pollution" and – as I already mentioned – Krakow is one of the most polluted European cities, I'd say it's very fitting.
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By coupling his talents with elite conditioning, he made "motivated BJ Penn" into a meme and a synonym for how threatening a lightweight fighter could actually be.
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In clue news, I really enjoyed the two "It becomes its own synonym when …" clues, because it was a nice break from the other straightforward crossword clues.
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And every time Mr. Khosrowshahi uses the word "culture," Mr. Kalanick considers it a thinly veiled synonym for his reign, according to people familiar with his thinking.
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Befuddled readers in Denver realized their city was now a synonym for gentrification — at least, among cities not yet expensive enough to worry about San Francisco-ization.
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Boris Johnson, Britain's voluble prime minister, has called them "uncooperative crusties" — a synonym for hippies — and urged "importunate nose-ringed climate change protesters" to clear the roads.
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In Father Hamel's case, it was vivid - and the method of killing, his throat was cut, a signature of the assassin (for which a synonym is "cutthroat").
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