metaphor
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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
Soil was a metaphor for the growth we were incubating in our lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
That is the last we see or hear of that dirty business, which might as well be a visual metaphor for this docuseries’ shortcomings.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
She is irritated and peeved and just plain over it, over every metaphor from storm clouds to raging rivers, and she used to love metaphors.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
Their tattered remnants, barely held together with patches and stitching, are poignant metaphors for a battered will that keeps fighting even as protections wear thin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
"Game changer" is the i Paper's verdict as "Europe tackles Infantino" – continuing with the football metaphors.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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
Sound may also generate meaning, according to one theory, through nonverbal metaphors, “as a way of seeing and hearing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
It was like the metaphors Mrs. Brown was always talking about.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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