metaphorical

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That’s why I want to recommend a quirky, metaphorical way of thinking about investing when uncertainty is this high.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

But with oil returning to the $100 precipice, private credit markets beset by liquidity concerns, and bond investors back on inflation watch, it may not be long before the metaphorical dams start leaking.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

He later apologized on X, claiming he had "badly used the expression... in a metaphorical way to mean 'fooling around'".

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

The description says it is a metaphorical symbol used by the Akan people of Ghana to express “the importance of reaching back to knowledge gained in the past and bringing it into the present.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

“Right, but surely you must have thought about what happens to them, I mean as characters, I mean independent of their metaphorical meanings or whatever.”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green