analogy
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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 â Oct. 25, 2026
As a result, we often think of other minds by way of analogy, Basl said.
From MarketWatch â Oct. 24, 2026
The analogy Crill uses is having a habanero pepper in your kitchen.
From The Wall Street Journal â Oct. 13, 2026
He suggested an intriguing analogy with biological evolution, in which different useful characteristics can emerge through separate processes.
From Science Daily â Oct. 11, 2026
But part of me wants to make the analogy.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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I’m very wary of these sort of political analogies.
From Los Angeles Times â Aug. 12, 2026
"This opened the door to finding analogies in black holes of entropy and temperature used in thermodynamics."
From Science Daily â Jul. 13, 2026
But, to keep the farmyard analogies going, Serkis is bullish.
From BBC â 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 â 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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