metaphor

We believed that the defining metaphor of the new era would be the fall of the Berlin Wall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

She said the cartwheel becomes a metaphor throughout the show.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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

“He’s the one who questioned authority, fought for himself, refused to bow down or conform, and was like non serviam. That was a metaphor that resonated very strongly with me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

“Well, that metaphor is prohibited on today’s flight,” she said.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Who can’t learn from the life lessons soccer offers — and I’m not talking about the obvious geopolitical metaphors?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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

Fans of mixed metaphors will enjoy Czechia's Daniel Žižka, whose song Crossroads finds him in open waters... and in foreign fields, and in a golden cage and also in a "vicious spider web".

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes, and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat