analogy
Example Sentences
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A humiliating incident in a pool surrounded by her repulsed classmates echoes an iconic scene from “Carrie,” with Ducournau crafting an analogy for traumatic adolescent rites of passage like menstruation.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
