Synecdoche

//sɪˈnɛk.də.ki//

"Synecdoche" in a Sentence (3 examples)

Synecdoche the whole for part will take, Or part for whole, just for the metre's sake.

"Holocaust" can become a tired synecdoche for war crimes in general.

Perhaps being in a touring band was, to Yorke, a synecdoche for the modern condition: disorientation, alienation, rootlessness, exhaustion, lack of control, occasional derangement, constant motion.

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