Gretchen Primack
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Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rates of coronary disease of any group in the country....they have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they have only 40 percent of our cancer rate. They outlive other men by about six years now.
—Dr.William Castelli metonymy
A figure of speech in which one word is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. For example, in the expression The pen is mightier than the sword, the word pen is used for "the written word," and sword is used for "military power."
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