analogy
Example Sentences
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Mr. Swaim’s analogy to the Japanese surrender in World War II is in some ways more apt than he allows.
SW: It is like the basketball analogy, he gets the triple-double every game.
From BBC
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
Jordan used an analogy to make the case that high-intensity fire is not uniform.
From Los Angeles Times
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
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