How to replace a word with a predefined replacement? (many potential words)

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This, for example, seems to work in a few editors, and should scale for much larger JSON dictionaries of this pattern:

Lexical alternative pasted for word containing cursor.kmmacros (5.8 KB)

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Originally mis-posted an indicative example to its own thread:

Example: Word lookup by JSONValue token Macro (v11.0.3)

Putting aside the IO details (possibly more editor-dependent than you hope) of: Mouse position -> word selection -> word text -> word replacement, one approach to term lookup is to: Hold your lexicon of alternative terms as a Keyboard Maestro variable in JSON dictionary format, and use the Keyboard Maestro %JSONValue% token to the fetch specific Source -> Target matching string. Broadly, using a three-term dummy lexicon, and illustrating the use of %JSONValue% with it: Example- Word looku…