analogy
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When I asked him how he approaches the stewardship of two houses synonymous with their founders’ creative visions, he offered a personally chilling analogy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
My analogy is that it’s a little bit like Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
Dimon’s analogy is inaccurate — cockroaches are highly resilient insects that have survived for hundreds of millions of years.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
Getting what Mr. Xi likes about the analogy?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
The clock metaphor is thus used by Descartes to make an epistemological argument about the limits of our understanding, rather than as an analogy as to how the universe actually works.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing analogy
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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