analogy
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When I asked him how he approaches the stewardship of two houses synonymous with their founders’ creative visions, he offered a personally chilling analogy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Adamson draws an analogy to military educational deferments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
No, the analogy can’t take us that far; there are no ingredients here, just a calculation you could, in principle, do by hand.
From Slate • May 25, 2026
Dimon’s analogy is inaccurate — cockroaches are highly resilient insects that have survived for hundreds of millions of years.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
Ms. G’s analogy, “Don’t judge a peanut by its shell, judge it by what’s inside of it,” made perfect sense to me.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
Vocabulary lists containing analogy
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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