analogy
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Getting what Mr. Xi likes about the analogy?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Goolsbee said the analogy from the 1990s tech boom that Warsh and others have invoked “is a little harder for me to understand.”
From Barron's • May 9, 2026
The analogy quickly spread across social media, where it was widely criticized for oversimplifying how identification actually works in everyday settings.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
Mohammed El-Erian uses the analogy of a fire brigade that has run out of water.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
It’s a difficult concept to grasp, but the easiest way to approach space-time is through an analogy: space and time are like a gigantic rubber sheet.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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