analogy
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Haigwood describes the three treatments with another analogy:
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
When asked whether the entire team was full speed and ready to go, he made the analogy of an airplane gathering speed down a runway before achieving flight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
The analogy made was this: “The internet made information liquid. This makes ownership liquid.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Mr. Sabet thinks the analogy is inapposite: “Alcohol has been a central part of Western civilization since before the Old Testament. It’s been used by the vast majority of those in the West.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
I’m very wary of these sort of political analogies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
But, to keep the farmyard analogies going, Serkis is bullish.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
"This opened the door to finding analogies in black holes of entropy and temperature used in thermodynamics."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Hemani reminds courts that analogies are not self-executing and must be tested, not merely invoked.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
The examples are not so much metaphors or analogies as they are actual instances of the phenomena he is explaining, and they are instances that readers can see with their own eyes.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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