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by vunderba 392 days ago
I'm not sure stereotype is the correct word here. But even setting that aside, a thesaurus being a referential work containing words grouped by similarity is the CONVENTIONAL definition.

Everyone of my friends and family had one growing up. It wasn't completely uncommon as a young child to glaze your eyes "beautiful mind style" to suss out repetitious or excessive duplicate word usage in your hastily prepared 5-paragraph MLA format essay and then run it through the nearest Merriam-Webster thesaurus.

https://youtu.be/XAD13c3UkS0?t=49