analogy

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A humiliating incident in a pool surrounded by her repulsed classmates echoes an iconic scene from “Carrie,” with Ducournau crafting an analogy for traumatic adolescent rites of passage like menstruation.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Mr. Swaim’s analogy to the Japanese surrender in World War II is in some ways more apt than he allows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

On a surface level, boost buttons and extra electrical energy smack of computer games - hence Verstappen's remark about Mario Kart, the second time he had used the analogy in four days in Shanghai.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

When the founders of quantum mechanics began exploring the strange behavior of matter and light, they realized Hamilton's framework was more than a simple analogy.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

In his book The Inflationary Universe, Alan Guth provides an analogy that helps to put this finding in perspective.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson