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Which of the following is an analogy about the human brain?

analogy

[uh-nal-uh-jee] / əˈnÃĶl ə dʒi /


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"The old-map analogy is useful for explaining how historical bias can be inherited, but it has its limits," he told BBC News.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

As a result, we often think of other minds by way of analogy, Basl said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

The analogy Crill uses is having a habanero pepper in your kitchen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

He suggested an intriguing analogy with biological evolution, in which different useful characteristics can emerge through separate processes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

But part of me wants to make the analogy.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

I’m very wary of these sort of political analogies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

"This opened the door to finding analogies in black holes of entropy and temperature used in thermodynamics."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

But, to keep the farmyard analogies going, Serkis is bullish.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Hemani’s answer is that constitutional rights cannot turn on analogies that survive only because the categories have been defined so broadly that the distinctions disappear.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

“Think of your two less cups as a long-term investment,” he tells Garrett, who at this point could probably run his own company based entirely on Dad’s cheesy business analogies.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman


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