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analogize

[uh-nal-uh-jahyz] / əˈnæl əˌdʒaɪz /


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I analogize it to local entities and services, even law enforcement, don’t check your tax returns.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

You analogize that to how, after Brown v.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2024

“They’d like to analogize this with the ho-hum updating of the flu vaccine each year — don’t think about it, just get it,” said William Schaffner, an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

In this case, speakers analogize the “s” sound at the end of “gracias” and apply it to the English form.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023

If you wish to analogize the Hot 100 to the federal government, you can think of radio as the judicial branch—slow-moving and defined by custom and format.

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2017

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell recently analogized the lack of economic data during the government shutdown to driving in a fog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

The explanation Belflower proposes for Abigail’s mad dancing in the forest is ideally analogized in the final scene.

From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022

In this exaggerated burlesque performance, motherhood is analogized to prison, or the feeling of a child’s scooter wheel repeatedly hitting you in the ankle bone for all eternity.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2022

This is known as pumped storage, an infrastructure often analogized as a giant watery battery.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2021

Governor Taft simply analogized his situation to that of a governor of a State or Territory at home.

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount

But to the extent that analogizing from the past is useful, we might be able to see something about AI by looking at it through a different lens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

People have been analogizing A.I. advances to splitting the atom for years.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2023

Schaffner explained by analogizing pockets of air on a plane to slices of bread.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2022

Historical analogizing about such matters is inherently difficult.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2021

It was born, I think, of my frenzy for analogizing.

From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee




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