simile
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The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Ohtani was eliminated by Juan Soto in the opening round, after which he said with a simile, “It was more tiring than the regular season.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2025
“The simile with the DNA is more a metaphor but in some way, there exists the connection as mentioned for solving paths.”
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2024
Mario Cuomo over the grammatical difference between a simile and metaphor.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
“But the simile does not suit us, for you are no moth, and I am not a fire.”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
In a 1944 letter, he noted that he sometimes found Welty’s gorgeous metaphors and similes a distraction, “touching something outside the story so vividly that for a moment the mind shifts away from the theme.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
The Nebraska-born Walz also emanates the positivity of Ted Lasso, a Kansan, minus the stuffed-down crippling depression and the barrage of folksy similes.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2024
Boras then went into one of his similes and word plays.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Writers often resort to similes and metaphors to describe a wine, likening it to a string quartet or a brass band or a ballet.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
But whenever you hear bad poets declaiming their bad poetry, filled with foolish similes and ugly rhymes, you will know which of the meads they have tasted.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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