analogous
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What’s going on there is analogous to what the oil business did in Houston and Dallas.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026
But that argument is undermined by the short-term responses of Treasury rates in the closest analogous crisis: the 1973 embargo on oil shipments to the U.S. by the petroleum-exporting countries in the Middle East.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
“I think it’s analogous to Amazon Web Services, where the people didn’t expect that AWS would be the most valuable part of Amazon when it started out as a bookstore.”
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
Markus sees AI pilots as analogous to flipping a coin: You have a roughly 50/50 chance of it working out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
He wrote in one of his secret notebooks “Children have an uncommon pleasure in hiding themselves & skulking about in shrubbery. When other people are about: this is analogous to young pigs hiding themselves.”
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
Vocabulary lists containing analogous
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"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Introduction–Chapter 5
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