metaphor
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If you’ll permit a shift in metaphor: Wood singed once makes for better kindling.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026
The old metaphor of a tree – a single trunk branching into distinct species – has been quietly replaced in the scientific literature.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
The narrative served as a metaphor for Stallone's own life.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
The New Zealand landscape does echo the rolling hills of Central California, in a dry season, but it’s a dreary vision, hardly the paradise of Steinbeck’s memory, book or metaphor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
In American Lit class once, we discussed America as a metaphor tying it into how the country is represented in books, movies, songs.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
Jerry will point out poetic elements of the songs, explain rhythm, similes and metaphors, internal rhymes, clichés, split perspective and different types of rhyme schemes.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
There are metaphors, and there are metaphors, but this one is just too on the nose.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
"The proliferation of those struck me," Vara told Front Row, adding that the story also had a lot of metaphors, also prevalent in writing generated by AI.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Amid the many animal metaphors that invariably occupy reactions to my predictions, a dominant theme are dogs and crows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
“We put hell in it and we damn it,” she would say, and I would laugh because it was funny to hear my mom, who never used colorful metaphors, pretend to curse.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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