Agents
Private detectives and agents are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Private detectives" instead a noun "Agents".
Private detectives
Agents and private detectives are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Agents" instead a noun phrase "Private detectives".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- In the early strips of Mortadelo y Filemón, both worked alone as private detectives instead of being secret agents, Filemón was always angry and smoked a pipe, Mortadelo was even more stupid and clumsy, and there was barely any of the Slapstick that defines the series nowadays.
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