metaphoric

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That movie opens ever outward in its metaphoric power, becoming an enthralling, defining vision of its era of media, and the new “Faces of Death” initially seems to have similar ambitions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

In the United States, golden statuary is rare and usually metaphoric — the Oregon Pioneer, the Golden Driller, the Spirit of Communication.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

For white authors and readers, Morrison argued, blackness has been more metaphoric than real, a signifier of certain behavioral expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 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

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

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro