analogy
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When I asked him how he approaches the stewardship of two houses synonymous with their founders’ creative visions, he offered a personally chilling analogy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
My analogy is that it’s a little bit like Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
Getting what Mr. Xi likes about the analogy?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Goolsbee said the analogy from the 1990s tech boom that Warsh and others have invoked “is a little harder for me to understand.”
From Barron's • May 9, 2026
This concept of argument from analogy had been taken up by the Epicureans from medicine, but it was also familiar to lawyers.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing analogy
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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