I frequently use an on-line thesaurus to find synonyms, and though the process isn't always precise, the near-misses are often more fun to read. That sort of service is also a boon to news aggregators that massage and repackage the prose of newspapers such as The Baltimore Sun. For some laughs, check out these examples of murdering the English language from theopca.com, a website that must run stories through an Intergalactic Proton-7 Synonym Synthesizer (or a room full of chimps with typewriters):

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