analogy
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“The analogy is amazing,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, who led the Senate Dems’ campaign arm in 2006, recently told the New York Times.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
But it’s a far better analogy for how viewers rallied behind the show, making Hansen and his questionable methods a sensation that could be replicated after their mutual cancellation.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
I always do the analogy of, if you’re out of town and a family member is hurt or sick, it doesn’t matter where you are or why you were out of town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
One analogy is to the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley law, enacted after the WorldCom and Enron fiascoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The analogy my mom used was that there were now two male lions in the house.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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
As exercises in ordinary language, those analogies are difficult to quarrel with.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
The examples are not so much metaphors or analogies as they are actual instances of the phenomena he is explaining, and they are instances that readers can see with their own eyes.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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