metaphor
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Maybe it’s a metaphor, but more likely, it is just a song about her underwear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
That conceit ended up an unsubtle but no less effective metaphor for our new Gilded Age.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
It would have been a fitting metaphor for an awful afternoon for the Old Trafford hosts.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
He uses a local metaphor, “rotate the crops,” for political turnover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
It was an even more obvious metaphor for Christians, as it was easy to think of God as a legislator imposing laws on nature and to personify nature as obeying him.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
“The Whale” is subtler on stage than it is on screen; its metaphors work better in the theater’s buoyant atmosphere for which they were conceived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
And I wasn’t entirely thrilled with “Backrooms” getting lost in the maze of its metaphors, either.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
"Game changer" is the i Paper's verdict as "Europe tackles Infantino" – continuing with the football metaphors.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Mr. Graham-Dixon has written a fine guide to Vermeer’s territory, but without a sure theological map, there are no narrative shortcuts between Vermeer’s motives and his metaphors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“We put hell in it and we damn it,” she would say, and I would laugh because it was funny to hear my mom, who never used colorful metaphors, pretend to curse.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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