metaphor
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Appeared in the December 3, 2025, print edition as 'Remember When the Information Superhighway Was a Metaphor?'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
Card game Balatro, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Metaphor: Refantazio and Black Myth: Wukong are the other games up for the top prize.
From BBC • Nov. 18, 2024
I’m not an ornithologist, but my guidebook identifies it as a Common Western Metaphor.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022
Metaphor example: “The pizza was a disk of saucy sunlight.”
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
The dance of qualitative research design: Metaphor, methodology, and meaning.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Vocabulary lists containing metaphor
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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