simile
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I love that simile because she did refer to her wardrobe as an “impenetrable fortress.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
The settings—generic spaces such as cafés, train stations, hotel lobbies, and offices—tend to be described with similar brevity, while the detectives’ actions are recounted in prose generally lacking metaphor, simile, or fanciful digression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
He once used an unexpectedly shocking simile to denounce what he termed "hypocritical clericalism".
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
“The simile with the DNA is more a metaphor but in some way, there exists the connection as mentioned for solving paths.”
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2024
People were more often-he searched for a simile, found one in his work-torches, blazing away until they whiffed out.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
He describes the scene in similes and metaphors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Nebraska-born Walz also emanates the positivity of Ted Lasso, a Kansan, minus the stuffed-down crippling depression and the barrage of folksy similes.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2024
Boras then went into one of his similes and word plays.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
If he wanted to describe the smell of coffee, he trained the program with examples and then asked it to generate similes until he found one he liked.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
“Yes. Unexpected similes can carry the power of surprise. They’re refreshing, aren’t they?”
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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