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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

“We analogize our strategy to snacks versus meals,” Silver said in 2018.

From Slate Feb. 24, 2021

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell recently analogized the lack of economic data during the government shutdown to driving in a fog.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 20, 2025

To make this case, the founders analogized colonists to the English men who had a right, according to the British Constitution, to elect their representatives to the legislature that imposed taxes.

From Slate Feb. 15, 2023

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

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 Blount, James H.

Suddaby is left analogizing social media accounts to pseudonymously published “political pamphlets or newspaper articles” in the founding era.

From Slate Oct. 7, 2022

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

From Salon Feb. 1, 2022

Kardaras’ op-ed goes on to warn that exposure to screens can cause "addiction," and he quotes researchers analogizing screentime to heroin and cocaine.

From The Verge Aug. 30, 2016

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 McFee, William




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