metaphor
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“The Pineapple” then began to feel like a metaphor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
One Book Club member described the prime minister’s geopolitics using a dating metaphor: “Canadians should realize there are more fish in the sea than the United States.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
That conceit ended up an unsubtle but no less effective metaphor for our new Gilded Age.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
It would have been a fitting metaphor for an awful afternoon for the Old Trafford hosts.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
There was the hope Dr. Holden had talked about—the grass was a metaphor for his hope.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
“The Whale” is subtler on stage than it is on screen; its metaphors work better in the theater’s buoyant atmosphere for which they were conceived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
CEOs sometimes use sports metaphors but stars can dominate those teams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
And I wasn’t entirely thrilled with “Backrooms” getting lost in the maze of its metaphors, either.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
"Game changer" is the i Paper's verdict as "Europe tackles Infantino" – continuing with the football metaphors.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
But as we shall see, coherent discourse also uses devices that differ from the branching of a tree, and our metaphors must expand accordingly.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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