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Keep "infusion" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
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12 total sentences available.
Samuel Johnson draws his own portrait as "a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of the fascinating plant; who with tea amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning."
Source: tatoeba (638877)
I drank an herbal infusion.
Source: tatoeba (1725308)
Trump’s administration is seeking to get Congress to approve an infusion of as much as $850 billion into the economy, including $250 billion for small business loans, and $50 billion to bail out the country’s airlines, as part of an emergency stimulus package.
Source: tatoeba (8618396)
The infusion is stored in a cool place for no more than three days.
Source: tatoeba (10289431)
Showing 4 of 12 available sentences.
Closest matches include tea, absorption and regurgitation, afflatus, affusion, animating spirit.
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