analogy
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Analogy time: Imagine your friend Buster sells you a bag of air.
From Slate • Oct. 3, 2023
Bishop Butler of the Analogy would walk for hours in his garden at Bristol on the darkest nights pondering the narrow line which divides the rational from the insane.
From The Guardian • May 6, 2020
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company also presents a work springing from the written word: “The Analogy Trilogy” explores themes of marginalization and migration, drawing from German writer W.G.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2018
Analogy: owning a nice car makes you happy, Having running water in your bath and kitchen makes you happy.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2018
Analogy, in political rhetoric, is the whiff of that burp.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Vocabulary lists containing analogy
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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