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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

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

Conceptually, DNA is analogized to the core of who we are as individuals and as a species.

From Salon Jul. 3, 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 did analogizing my body to a car make sense?

From Salon Jul. 21, 2019

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

In his comments to David Gregory, Wolfowitz called for an open-ended commitment to the country, analogizing his preferred approach to the long-term U.S. presence in South Korea.

From Slate Jun. 16, 2014

"All thinking is analogizing, and it is the use of life to learn metonymy."

From The Last Harvest by John Burroughs




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