analogy
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The analogy is shrinking a 4K image to the size of a postage stamp — except the picture is still 4K.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
After JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon used a cockroach analogy to warn about looming defaults, Nesbitt declared there were “No Cockroaches in Private Debt.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
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 • Mar. 26, 2026
And that’s why the mortgage analogy is so important.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
The clock metaphor is thus used by Descartes to make an epistemological argument about the limits of our understanding, rather than as an analogy as to how the universe actually works.
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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