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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

If you wish to analogize the Hot 100 to the federal government, you can think of radio as the judicial branch—slow-moving and defined by custom and format.

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2017

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

The Édouard Louis phenomenon in France has been analogized by some American reviewers to that of J.D.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2020

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

The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were analogizing and gazillion.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2022

Historical analogizing about such matters is inherently difficult.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2021

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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