analogies

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Analogies were eliminated in 2005 after academics claimed they were culturally biased.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Analogies use an object that is known to draw inferences about other similar objects.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Analogies between football and battlefields have become cliched, but to Mr. Bowden, who died Aug. 8 at 91, the link was a vital and defining part of his Hall of Fame career.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2021

Analogies aside, there are straightforward scientific explanations for why one's hair seems to abandon you.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2021

First recurring to the preceding table, and translating the Abstract Conceptions, Nature, Science, and Art, into their Concrete Equivalents or Analogies, they will stand thus: Abstract.Concrete.3.

From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various