analogous
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“I think it’s analogous to Amazon Web Services, where the people didn’t expect that AWS would be the most valuable part of Amazon when it started out as a bookstore.”
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
"Light drifts in a quantized manner, following universal steps analogous to those seen with electrons under strong magnetic fields," said Philippe St-Jean, a physics professor at Université de Montréal and co author of the study.
From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026
“We probably haven’t seen an analogous period of time like this since 1945,” Strazik said.
From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026
Something analogous happens in James Fox’s “Craftland,” which is devoted to the many traditional trades and occupations that have long created the material civilization of Britain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
His hometown was a wealthy but somewhat peripheral place, analogous in its pleasant remoteness to modern Sydney or Cape Town.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
Vocabulary lists containing analogous
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