analogies
Example Sentences
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It’s not easy to find analogies that can reanimate the importance of burial rites to a modern audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
To make the idea easier to understand, he uses several analogies.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
But, to keep the farmyard analogies going, Serkis is bullish.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
As exercises in ordinary language, those analogies are difficult to quarrel with.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
The new science often presented itself as a system of axioms and demonstrations, in Galileo’s Two New Sciences for example, or Newton’s Principia, but it was always grounded in facts and, less surely, in analogies.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
