How to Use analogue in a Sentence

analogue

noun
  • The closest analogue to the US debt ceiling is the set-up in Denmark.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 9 May 2023
  • This camera takes us back to the time when analogue cameras were the norm.
    Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • Think of it as an analogue for tea time, or even a happy hour.
    Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Looking for analogs There appear to be few past years like this one, Klotzbach said.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
  • That’s a good analogue for the global choices within the game.
    WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
  • On the surface, Annabelle's story sounds like an analogue for Kate's own.
    Rosie Knight, refinery29.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • There is no left-of-center analogue to these right-leaning sports shows.
    Kellen Browning, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
  • So how much of an analogue can your work be for people who aren’t choosing pain?
    David Marchese David Marchese Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The cold analogue is a photovoltaic cell on Earth facing the void of space.
    Sid Assawaworrarit, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The strips cannot detect how much fentanyl is present, and there may be some fentanyl analogues that the strips do not pick up.
    Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Grande, the former Nickelodeon star with woodwind-like vocal chords, is their analogue in the world of dance-pop.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In other words, what is the analogue of the roots of unity for other number systems?
    Quanta Magazine, 25 May 2021
  • On the new dual analogue setup for the Switch, both the visors and weapons switching is mapped to the D-pad, with the weapons accessed by holding the X button.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Later, the masking tape comes off, the edges become free-form and the paintings go from digital to analogue.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
  • Drake’s closest analogue in rap, LL Cool J, had similar designs in the late 1980s.
    Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2021
  • But maybe the biggest obstacle to Facebook’s audio hopes comes from the analog world.
    Arielle Pardes, Wired, 19 Apr. 2021
  • In the world of research chemicals, the term ‘analogue’ comes up frequently.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • One Astros legend serves as a fair analogue to Pressly's run of success.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 21 Feb. 2023
  • According to the study, the fish’s cartilage fits neatly yet loosely around the brain in a design with no known analogue.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
  • But at least one way its still alive is with analogue photography.
    Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Most fundamentally, the book has been seen as an analogue to God’s creation of Adam, and as a perversion of it.
    Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Then Healy, still dressed in a Bateman-esque suit, was onstage watching a wall of nine TVs showing analogue white noise when the music dropped to a bass tone.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
  • In fact, the best way to describe it is as a bridge between analogue passive speakers and modern smart-home solutions.
    John Archer, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The piece seems to conjure a prehistoric avant-garde musical workshop, a sonic analogue of the visual culture that can be glimpsed in the cave.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Brown's previous stop once again provides a tidy analogue.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Many of the special effects were based on the analog techniques of 1959, a year chosen because that’s when Barbie debuted.
    Willa Paskin, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • Perhaps a very long way off still, but a working analogue to the essential element of the brain’s networks, the synapse, appears closer at hand now.
    IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2022
  • There is no analogue to this mechanism in the Westminster system except, perhaps, for the House of Lords itself.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 July 2022
  • The show’s title is a playful nod to Golding’s book; flies may have been a fine analogue for boys, but girls require the ferocity of wasps, with their venom and their stingers.
    The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Still, the book’s very structure, cleaved in half by the 2016 U.S. election, makes every leader appear as either a forerunner or an analogue to Trump.
    Krithika Varagur, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2022

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