metaphoric

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Ms. Clark imbues Hillcrest with eerie metaphoric resonance, making it both forbidding and tenderly familiar.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

For white authors and readers, Morrison argued, blackness has been more metaphoric than real, a signifier of certain behavioral expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

And so it's really nice that people like you notice that sense of us as cloud makers, the little metaphoric embeddings of that pattern.

From Salon • May 28, 2025

The intimate surprise that occurs late in the play between Cyrano and Christian might seem random but it resonates when you consider their connection from a metaphoric point of view.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024

This begat a tradition of colorful but useless metaphoric descriptions that preoccupied physicians for centuries.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro