metaphorical
Example Sentences
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The next time a pundit cites that as a positive factor, though, ask them what happens with cash when it runs onto the metaphorical field?
He later apologized on X, claiming he had "badly used the expression... in a metaphorical way to mean 'fooling around'".
From BBC
If that sounds metaphorical, it’s meant to be.
From Los Angeles Times
The description says it is a metaphorical symbol used by the Akan people of Ghana to express “the importance of reaching back to knowledge gained in the past and bringing it into the present.”
From Los Angeles Times
It’s “a metaphorical escape from the Great Depression to an Edenic place where the rules of supply and demand do not apply.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
