metaphor
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She said the cartwheel becomes a metaphor throughout the show.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
While she likely intended the lyric to be empowering, instead it feels more like a metaphor for her apparent physical fragility.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
I also am not losing any sleep over Pirro’s employment status, and I’ve always believed that the pool story is—as my colleague Christina Cauterucci explained—useful more as a metaphor than as a policy issue.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
As in all things, Falstaff is led by his belly, a gargantuan metaphor for his gluttonous nature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The Sun was a metaphor for God, around Whom all else revolves.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Being the kind of person who adorns themselves compulsively opens you up to a slew of corny metaphors that, against your will, feel deeply relevant to you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Today there are more than 800–roughly the population of Tapanuli orangutans or wild Bactrian camels, but it’s too late to change metaphors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Perhaps you can see how the metaphors between the backrooms and the internet itself multiply from here: Like the backrooms, one can lose oneself forever in the internet.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026
It found this system had been unwittingly incentivised to mention goblins, gremlins and other creatures more in metaphors.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
These are examples of metaphors I laughed my socks off.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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