analogy
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The analogy is shrinking a 4K image to the size of a postage stamp — except the picture is still 4K.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
A humiliating incident in a pool surrounded by her repulsed classmates echoes an iconic scene from “Carrie,” with Ducournau crafting an analogy for traumatic adolescent rites of passage like menstruation.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
On a surface level, boost buttons and extra electrical energy smack of computer games - hence Verstappen's remark about Mario Kart, the second time he had used the analogy in four days in Shanghai.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026
And that’s why the mortgage analogy is so important.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
Of course the sagging mattress analogy can take us only so far because it doesn’t incorporate the effect of time.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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