analogies
Example Sentences
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To make the idea easier to understand, he uses several analogies.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
I’m very wary of these sort of political analogies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
But, to keep the farmyard analogies going, Serkis is bullish.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
But Hemani serves as a reminder that analogies are easiest to make from a distance.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
The new science often presented itself as a system of axioms and demonstrations, in Galileo’s Two New Sciences for example, or Newton’s Principia, but it was always grounded in facts and, less surely, in analogies.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
