analogous
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But that argument is undermined by the short-term responses of Treasury rates in the closest analogous crisis: the 1973 embargo on oil shipments to the U.S. by the petroleum-exporting countries in the Middle East.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
“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
"Light drifts in a quantized manner, following universal steps analogous to those seen with electrons under strong magnetic fields," said Philippe St-Jean, a physics professor at Université de Montréal and co author of the study.
From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026
Markus sees AI pilots as analogous to flipping a coin: You have a roughly 50/50 chance of it working out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
His hometown was a wealthy but somewhat peripheral place, analogous in its pleasant remoteness to modern Sydney or Cape Town.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
Vocabulary lists containing analogous
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"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Introduction–Chapter 5
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