metaphoric

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Ms. Clark imbues Hillcrest with eerie metaphoric resonance, making it both forbidding and tenderly familiar.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

As in all sports novels, climbing offers the characters a framework for living, and Mr. Tallent magnifies every aspect of its metaphoric potential.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

And so it's really nice that people like you notice that sense of us as cloud makers, the little metaphoric embeddings of that pattern.

From Salon • May 28, 2025

The metaphoric fourth wall is nowhere in sight, as the actor casually banters with audience members.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2024

This begat a tradition of colorful but useless metaphoric descriptions that preoccupied physicians for centuries.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro