analogous
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What’s going on there is analogous to what the oil business did in Houston and Dallas.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026
But that argument is undermined by the short-term responses of Treasury rates in the closest analogous crisis: the 1973 embargo on oil shipments to the U.S. by the petroleum-exporting countries in the Middle East.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
“It’s easy to imagine an analogous scenario this year, in which the Federal Reserve hikes and the economy slips into recession,” he added.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
Some readers imagine Kafka’s protagonist, Gregor Samsa, a hardworking salesman in a city that seems analogous to Kafka’s native Prague, has morphed into a cockroach.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
The men’s admissions pattern was analogous to Gehrig’s hitting pattern—coming to bat more often during the second half of the season when getting a hit is easier.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Vocabulary lists containing analogous
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