Synonyms for key word
key word

Princeton's WordNet

1. key wordnoun

   a word that is used as a pattern to decode an encrypted message

2. key wordnoun

   a significant word used in indexing or cataloging

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1. Lifelong New Yorker Andy Maskin:

   An element of this that interests me is that everyone talks about being the ‘outsider’, everyone is ‘I’m not from Washington, I’m an outsider or I’m not from – insert state capital here – I’m outsider. Nobody campaigns and says ‘I’m an insider.’ The ‘outsider’ is kind of the key word.

2. Sara Landvik:

   We want to collect as many diverse species of fungi as possible, diversity is really the key word for everything that we do.

3. Andreas Andreadis:

   The key word is stability.

4. Myles Faith:

   A key word is structure and recognizing how hard this is, we have to be empathizing with what families are going through.

5. Brad Carruthers:

   Qualified immunity isn’t used very often, if an officer does something wrong, they don’t qualify. That’s the key word of those two words, 'qualified immunity.' They do something egregious, they don’t qualify for it.