figurative
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And the last thing we need is a world without mothers — literal or figurative.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
The Dunlap broadside was a broadside in a figurative sense as well as a literal one, blasting its message like cannons fired from the side of a warship.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Harmonia Rosales’ Black figurative paintings combine Eurocentric artistic traditions with African diasporic cosmologies as a way to course-correct the historical erasure of Black images from classical narratives.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
"The most important centre of Islamic civilisation in the 15th century endorsed figurative art," he added.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
St. John’s eyes, though clear enough in a literal sense, in a figurative one were difficult to fathom.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing figurative
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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