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A typical example page with synonyms and quotations (not all have both): https://carefulwords.com/above

I began this in late September purely on the whims of frustration with thesaurus.com, which does not bother to focus the input box! So I made my own site that focuses the input box. And because I wanted a thesaurus where I could type just the word in the address bar eg carefulwords.com/word to get my results.

It is very rough around the edges right now. There are far too many synonyms, which themselves are only organized alphabetically. It also does not solve some of my original problems with thesauruses, so I may take the site in a very different direction over time.

I think it should be possible to make something like a thesaurus that grants a bit more inspiration to the searcher. Now what would a thesaurus need to do that?



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