Statisticians create a thesaurus that's powered by Google-News. It displays results based on words that were mentioned in association any "Target-Word" in the news. This way results update as our culture changes. (vs. a traditional thesaurus, which is just a hard-coded list.)

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Statisticians create a thesaurus that's powered by Google-News. It displays results based on words that were mentioned in association any "Target-Word" in the news. This way results update as our culture changes. (vs. a traditional thesaurus, which is just a hard-coded list.)