analogy

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

From Salon

Mr. Swaim’s analogy to the Japanese surrender in World War II is in some ways more apt than he allows.

From The Wall Street Journal

SW: It is like the basketball analogy, he gets the triple-double every game.

From BBC

On a surface level, boost buttons and extra electrical energy smack of computer games - hence Verstappen's remark about Mario Kart, the second time he had used the analogy in four days in Shanghai.

From BBC

Jordan used an analogy to make the case that high-intensity fire is not uniform.

From Los Angeles Times