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
"This opened the door to finding analogies in black holes of entropy and temperature used in thermodynamics."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
But, to keep the farmyard analogies going, Serkis is bullish.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The same could be said for the Bible, which for centuries has furnished the English language and the Western mind with phrases, analogies and images.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 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
