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drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect

Her analogy is flawed.

Analogy is even slipperier than logic.
Robert Heinlein -- Stranger in a Strange Land
An analogy can make a complex problem seem simpler by comparing it to a similar situation.
Analogy is even slipperier than logic.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Stranger in a Strange Land
Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

analogous = something to be compared to

an analogous source of error
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter

analogous = drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect

The operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain.
If his great cavernous eyes expressed any feeling it was analogous to the reluctance manifest in his posture—he regretted the presence of his gang.
Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
'The analogy is accurate,' broke in McAllister, his fingers at his right temple.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
Willie uses the team analogy, but I think of it like a band.
Willie & Korie Robertson -- The Duck Commander Family
It's not a perfect analogy, because there's no place where I end and he begins."
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
That was the analogy I had in mind, too.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
The civil rights movement achieved many things, and one of them was to create a plausible analogy between Ole Miss football and the Confederate army.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
'Very well, Captain,' interrupted Gudgeon hurriedly, before the sprite could complete his graphic analogy.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
By analogy with IPL, Ender decided the letters meant Inter-Stellar Launch.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
I thought I would push his analogy to its utmost logically, so I said quickly, "Oh, it is a soul you are after now, is it?"
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
I'm not sure I like that analogy.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
The material establishes its own routes in a fashion analogous to the functioning of the brain when it is learning something.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
Someone may claim that you have asserted, by analogy, that one potato is worth the same price, no more, no less, as one thousand potatoes.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

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