Using LLM as a contextual thesaurus

Like any writer, I often can’t find the perfect word or want to avoid repetition. It would be very hard for me to write without a thesaurus…until recently. Now, when I want to find a word, I ask an LLM (I’ve mostly been using BingChat) to write three variations of the sentence. I’ve never outright copied any of the variations into my writing: usually the sentences are just not quite right; it often changes too much, taking away more than it adds (there have been a few that were really good, so it’s only a matter of time). But it’s great at suggesting alternative individual words: especially alternate adjectives (colors) and verbs.

This makes sense: it’s acting like a Thesaurus, but it uses the context of the rest of the sentence to narrow the range of alternatives.