analogy
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Under the gentle questioning of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Amodei made an analogy.
From MarketWatch â Sep. 16, 2026
Fewer sulphate particles mean less sunlight is reflected away - in our greenhouse analogy, the windows are cleaner.
From BBC â Sep. 8, 2026
Heading into training camp, Jim Harbaugh made the analogy of the Chargers ramping up like an airplane.
From Los Angeles Times â Sep. 6, 2026
Banal pandemic analogy aside, “The Last House” is similarly built around an intentionally repetitive plot and thrills that rarely manage to excite or surprise the viewer.
From Salon â Sep. 2, 2026
The analogy of the storage battery has been used: ATP represents the charged, ADP the discharged battery.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
It’s not easy to find analogies that can reanimate the importance of burial rites to a modern audience.
From Los Angeles Times â Sep. 11, 2026
To make the idea easier to understand, he uses several analogies.
From Science Daily â Aug. 25, 2026
But, to keep the farmyard analogies going, Serkis is bullish.
From BBC â Jul. 13, 2026
Instead, she joined Justice Samuel Alito’s concurrence in the judgment, which agreed that the government’s historical analogies failed.
From Slate â Jun. 26, 2026
The distinction between two very different types of inference, between vestiges and analogies, is still important for Locke.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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