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metaphor

[met-uh-fawr, -fer] / ˈmɛt əˌfɔr, -fər /
NOUN
figure of speech, implied comparison
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WEAK
plain speech


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Appeared in the December 3, 2025, print edition as 'Remember When the Information Superhighway Was a Metaphor?'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Card game Balatro, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Metaphor: Refantazio and Black Myth: Wukong are the other games up for the top prize.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2024

Metaphor example: “The pizza was a disk of saucy sunlight.”

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

On the other side of Crenshaw Boulevard, four Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity brothers have cultivated a community for black creatives at the Metaphor Club.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2020

The dance of qualitative research design: Metaphor, methodology, and meaning.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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