metaphor
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As in all things, Falstaff is led by his belly, a gargantuan metaphor for his gluttonous nature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
“The Wizard of Oz” reminded viewers of the necessity for imagination and metaphor at the end of the Great Depression and dawn of a new war.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
"It's beautiful, it's like a metaphor," Apostol said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
For Rüdiger Mahlo, the first sign that Germans were starting to fundamentally alter the meaning of Holocaust was when they started using it as a metaphor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
I had always found this verse, which was a metaphor for the glory of God, to be deeply moving.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
District Judge Aileen Cannon agreed, reiterating that “the allegedly infringed material — basic ideas, themes, metaphors, isolated words, and short phrases — is not protected expression and cannot be infringed.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 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
It found this system had been unwittingly incentivised to mention goblins, gremlins and other creatures more in metaphors.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Language, metaphors, narratives, structures—all these exist to explain, rather than constrain, our desires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
The metaphors used then may be obscure to us now.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing metaphor
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