simile
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The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
I love that simile because she did refer to her wardrobe as an “impenetrable fortress.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
He once used an unexpectedly shocking simile to denounce what he termed "hypocritical clericalism".
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
“The simile with the DNA is more a metaphor but in some way, there exists the connection as mentioned for solving paths.”
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2024
Colonel Korn was pleased with the simile and filed a mental reminder to repeat it the next time he found himself in General Peckem’s presence.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
In a 1944 letter, he noted that he sometimes found Welty’s gorgeous metaphors and similes a distraction, “touching something outside the story so vividly that for a moment the mind shifts away from the theme.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Boras then went into one of his similes and word plays.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Ted came to England as a broken man with a gentle smile on his face, a head full of homespun similes, cornpone puns and a heart bursting with Midwestern niceness.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2023
If he wanted to describe the smell of coffee, he trained the program with examples and then asked it to generate similes until he found one he liked.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
Though no writer can avoid idioms altogether—they’re part of the English lexicon, just like individual words—good writers reach for fresh similes and metaphors that keep the reader’s sensory cortexes lit up.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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