analogies
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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 distinction between two very different types of inference, between vestiges and analogies, is still important for Locke.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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