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
To make the idea easier to understand, he uses several analogies.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
But, to keep the farmyard analogies going, Serkis is bullish.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The court’s analogies also obscure what is ultimately at stake.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
The examples are not so much metaphors or analogies as they are actual instances of the phenomena he is explaining, and they are instances that readers can see with their own eyes.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
