analogous

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“I think it’s analogous to Amazon Web Services, where the people didn’t expect that AWS would be the most valuable part of Amazon when it started out as a bookstore.”

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

Some readers imagine Kafka’s protagonist, Gregor Samsa, a hardworking salesman in a city that seems analogous to Kafka’s native Prague, has morphed into a cockroach.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

This would be analogous to having one arm tied behind your back.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

They show that structures analogous to the superior colliculus -- found in fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals -- share a common purpose: merging sensory and motor information to guide gaze and attention.

From Science Daily • Nov. 8, 2025

He wrote in one of his secret notebooks “Children have an uncommon pleasure in hiding themselves & skulking about in shrubbery. When other people are about: this is analogous to young pigs hiding themselves.”

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman