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Visuwords& online graphical dictionary and thesaurus

Visuwords& online graphical dictionary and thesaurus

Cliche Finder Have you been searching for just the right cliché to use? Are you searching for a cliché using the word "cat" or "day" but haven't been able to come up with one? Just enter any words in the form below, and this search engine will return any clichés which use that phrase... Over 3,300 clichés indexed! What exactly is a cliche? This is Morgan, creator of the Cliche Finder. Or, you might like my crazy passion project: Spanish for Nerds: Learning Spanish via Etymologies! Back to cliches... if you would like to see some other Web sites about clichés? © S. Special thanks to Damien LeriAnd to Mike Senter Morgan's Web page

One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence. The most common first names for police officers, poets and venture capitalists Verdant Labs, the maker of a baby name research app, has used public records to chart disproportionately common names by profession. People with the names are listed are more likely than others to have those professions – for example, a higher proportion of people named Wayne and Kevin are police officers, while those named Edgar and Hannah are more likely than their counterparts to be poets. The chart shows names that are common in a profession relative to their overall frequency, not the most common name by profession. In other words, most journalists are not named Gideon – as for other jobs, they are probably named James or John or Mike – but a higher percentage of Gideons are journalists than Mikes are. (Mikes are busy being football coaches.) Names of course reflect gender, race, class, the parents’ educational level and aspirations, and a whole host of other things, and those trends are on display here. Image reprinted thanks to Mark at Verdant Labs.

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