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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

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

The images, published at the height of the space race, were constructed as alien, analogized to galactic exploration and coded as masculine.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

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

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2021

The Defense Department requires that immunization protocols for reserve forces be consistent with active forces, and special requirements during pandemic influenza could be analogized to covid-19.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 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

People have been analogizing A.I. advances to splitting the atom for years.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2023

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

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2022

But did analogizing my body to a car make sense?

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2019

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

From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee




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