saying
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Synonyms
adage, aphorism, apothegm, byword, epigram, maxim, proverb, saw, sententia, word
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There’s the saying that people have used since the shooting to describe his community’s resilience. — AZCentral.com, "After El Paso, Latinos across America voice a new kind of fear," 16 Aug. 2019 Residents took to social media to write about the outage, with some saying power eventually returned for them after almost an hour. — Andy Nguyen, Glendale News-Press, "Power outage leaves Glendale residents without power amid heatwave," 24 July 2019 Like a lot of game, the old saying is that turtle tastes like chicken. — Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star, "Indiana noodling: Inside the Hoosier tradition of catching snapping turtles by hand," 14 July 2019 The saying is that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, "Fiction: Tin-Eared Bureaucrats and Frayed Connections," 14 June 2019 But as an old saying goes, all is fair in love, war and presidential campaigns. — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, "Column: The birthers are back — this time for Kamala Harris," 2 July 2019 As the old saying goes, your evil terrorist is my heroic freedom fighter. — Robert Darnton, The New York Review of Books, "David A. Bell," 17 Jan. 2019 That’s a familiar family decision in China, where an old saying in the culture claims the fear of death is what actually kills people. — Noel Murray, The Verge, "Fans of The Farewell should check out Awkwafina in the Netflix doc Bad Rap," 12 July 2019 Grant Park, Milwaukee County There’s an old saying that the best park is the one in your backyard. — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Some of Wisconsin’s best parks are small county and city ones," 27 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'saying.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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