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analogize

[uh-nal-uh-jahyz] / əˈnæl əˌdʒaɪz /


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I analogize it to local entities and services, even law enforcement, don’t check your tax returns.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

You analogize that to how, after Brown v.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2024

“They’d like to analogize this with the ho-hum updating of the flu vaccine each year — don’t think about it, just get it,” said William Schaffner, an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

In this case, speakers analogize the “s” sound at the end of “gracias” and apply it to the English form.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023

What we do best in the aftermath of a cybersecurity incident is analogize it to something else, preferably something deadly, in catastrophic language.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2015

They interestingly analogized marriage to slavery because, at the time, there was a legal category called “domestic relations.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

The explanation Belflower proposes for Abigail’s mad dancing in the forest is ideally analogized in the final scene.

From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022

In this exaggerated burlesque performance, motherhood is analogized to prison, or the feeling of a child’s scooter wheel repeatedly hitting you in the ankle bone for all eternity.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2022

This is known as pumped storage, an infrastructure often analogized as a giant watery battery.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2021

Governor Taft simply analogized his situation to that of a governor of a State or Territory at home.

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount

But to the extent that analogizing from the past is useful, we might be able to see something about AI by looking at it through a different lens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Schaffner explained by analogizing pockets of air on a plane to slices of bread.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2022

Over analogizing, meanwhile, can make things more confusing.

From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2018

Let’s strip away the censure, for a moment,by analogizing the trend to personal wealth management.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2016

It was born, I think, of my frenzy for analogizing.

From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee


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