- a variation of metaphorical.
metaphoric
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Gibney sporadically complements his archival materials and many interviews with the metaphoric imagery of player-one gaming: toggling between identities, first-person shooter modes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Ms. Clark imbues Hillcrest with eerie metaphoric resonance, making it both forbidding and tenderly familiar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
That movie opens ever outward in its metaphoric power, becoming an enthralling, defining vision of its era of media, and the new “Faces of Death” initially seems to have similar ambitions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
His metaphoric touchdown culminated a 13-minute Latin-fueled performance and was an homage to the countless artists that came before him, said Harriet Cuddeford, the creative director behind the performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
This begat a tradition of colorful but useless metaphoric descriptions that preoccupied physicians for centuries.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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