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analogize

[uh-nal-uh-jahyz] / əˈnæl əˌdʒaɪz /


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I analogize it to local entities and services, even law enforcement, don’t check your tax returns.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 1, 2026

You analogize that to how, after Brown v.

From Salon Jul. 14, 2024

“They’d like to analogize this with the ho-hum updating of the flu vaccine each year — don’t think about it, just get it,” said William Schaffner, an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University.

From Washington Times Oct. 12, 2023

In this case, speakers analogize the “s” sound at the end of “gracias” and apply it to the English form.

From Scientific American Jun. 14, 2023

“We analogize our strategy to snacks versus meals,” Silver said in 2018.

From Slate Feb. 24, 2021

Throughout the opinion, the court analogized Congress’ spending power to a “contract” between the federal government and the states.

From Slate Jun. 23, 2026

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell recently analogized the lack of economic data during the government shutdown to driving in a fog.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 20, 2025

The images, published at the height of the space race, were constructed as alien, analogized to galactic exploration and coded as masculine.

From New York Times Sep. 29, 2022

The explanation Belflower proposes for Abigail’s mad dancing in the forest is ideally analogized in the final scene.

From Washington Post May 20, 2022

Governor Taft simply analogized his situation to that of a governor of a State or Territory at home.

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount

People have been analogizing A.I. advances to splitting the atom for years.

From New York Times Jun. 10, 2023

Schaffner explained by analogizing pockets of air on a plane to slices of bread.

From Salon Feb. 1, 2022

Historical analogizing about such matters is inherently difficult.

From Washington Post Feb. 16, 2021

In 2014, a district court held that Baidu’s search engine results were in fact protected by the First Amendment, citing Volokh’s reasoning and analogizing the search engine to a newspaper.

From Slate Mar. 22, 2017

"All thinking is analogizing, and it is the use of life to learn metonymy."

From The Last Harvest by John Burroughs




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