analogies

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But Hemani serves as a reminder that analogies are easiest to make from a distance.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2026

The same could be said for the Bible, which for centuries has furnished the English language and the Western mind with phrases, analogies and images.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

“And the analogies are that people got excited about internet stocks, and Berkshire Hathaway traded at the lowest valuation I think it ever traded in its history,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

Against that backdrop, the use of charged historical analogies can feel less like explanation and more like improvisation.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

The new science often presented itself as a system of axioms and demonstrations, in Galileo’s Two New Sciences for example, or Newton’s Principia, but it was always grounded in facts and, less surely, in analogies.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton