analogy
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That triple-decker analogy comes from a scholar whose love for poetry runs deep, and who seems part poet himself.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 28, 2026
Alexa Knight from the Mental Health Foundation gave a different analogy - consumer products.
From BBC β Aug. 27, 2026
Some financial analysts compared Bessent’s maneuvers to “rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic”—which probably isn’t an analogy he’d prefer to see!
From Slate β Aug. 20, 2026
Haigwood describes the three treatments with another analogy:
From Science Daily β Aug. 13, 2026
Pearl tried to think of an analogy she was sure Lexie would understand.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
I’m very wary of these sort of political analogies.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 12, 2026
"This opened the door to finding analogies in black holes of entropy and temperature used in thermodynamics."
From Science Daily β Jul. 13, 2026
But, to keep the farmyard analogies going, Serkis is bullish.
From BBC β Jul. 13, 2026
Hemani’s answer is that constitutional rights cannot turn on analogies that survive only because the categories have been defined so broadly that the distinctions disappear.
From Slate β Jun. 26, 2026
I turned around and asked Blanca what analogies meant.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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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