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as in metaphors
a way of describing or explaining one thing by means of describing another with which it shares certain points or qualities
The teacher used the analogy of a common pipeline to explain bandwidth on the Internet.
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as in similarities
resemblance in certain points or qualities between two or more otherwise unlike things
The study made note of analogies between human and ape social behavior.
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Recent Examples of analogies
As a result, both parties relied on analogies, Arm leveraged a piano analogy, and Qualcomm leveraged a building analogy.
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Jim McGregor, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
There are few better analogies for success for an entrepreneur than summoning lightning at will.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Many actors hone and build these skills as an athlete would, and not surprisingly, given her career as a professional boxer, a litany of boxing analogies find their way into the actor’s process.
—Lily Gladstone, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
The fact that fascism remains (for good reasons) toxic in Europe and North America makes analogies with the interwar period politically fraught.
—Justin Casey, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2023
Jim McGregor, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
There are few better analogies for success for an entrepreneur than summoning lightning at will.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Many actors hone and build these skills as an athlete would, and not surprisingly, given her career as a professional boxer, a litany of boxing analogies find their way into the actor’s process.
—Lily Gladstone, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
The fact that fascism remains (for good reasons) toxic in Europe and North America makes analogies with the interwar period politically fraught.
—Justin Casey, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for analogies
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Some cognitive scientists have assumed that all humans, whatever their local quirks, reason about time using spatial metaphors, yet at least one language, Tupi-Kawahíb, evidently lacks any mapping between time and space—not left to right, back to front, or downhill to uphill.—
Manvir Singh,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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Use metaphors and success stories to make your points, and keep the content succinct and relevant from a customer view.—
Martin Zwilling,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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But Wyman noted that our current moment shares a lot of similarities with the Weimar era.—
Maya Ibbitson,
Architectural Digest,
23 Dec. 2024
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Playoff team expansion and first-round byes are among the latest changes that bear similarities to the NFL structure.—
Mark LaSota, Ph.D.,
Forbes,
22 Dec. 2024
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The combination of IoT and AI enables connected devices to collect, analyze and act on data in real-time.—
Rahul Saluja,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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Just in time for Christmas, certain members of Congress are hard at work in their policy shops, fashioning a massive lump of cybersecurity coal with which to gift American users of electronic devices.—
David Williams,
National Review,
26 Dec. 2024
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“Analogies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/analogies. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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