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Her analogy is flawed.analogy = comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
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An analogy can make a complex problem seem simpler by comparing it to a similar situation.
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Analogy is even slipperier than logic. (source)analogy = a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
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Change the analogy from bread to medicine, and you will feel the same urgency I do. (source)
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If I'd been a boy he would have started me working at the assembly line, on the military analogy that an officer should not expect his men to perform any job he could not perform himself. (source)
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To use Mychal's clever little analogy, imagine eating NOTHING BUT mustard, being stuck with mustard ALL THE TIME and... (source)
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By analogy with IPL, Ender decided the letters meant Inter-Stellar Launch.† (source)analogy = a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
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an analogous source of error (source)analogous = similar in some respect
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He doesn't try to cheer Cy up with any more analogies, because Cy's so smart, he can find a way to make anything sound bad. (source)analogies = comparisons
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Time, something expressed analogously with numbers, goes entirely awry in battle, as you must know.† (source)analogously = in a manner that is similar in some respect
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To make an imperfect analogy: Human civilization was like a young, unworldly person walking alone across the desert of the universe, who has found out about the existence of a potential lover.† (source)analogy = a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
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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.† (source)analogous = similar in some respect
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Exotic analogies aside, having a foreign name in this land of Joes and Marys is a pain in the spice cabinet.† (source)analogies = comparisons of different things to point to shared characteristics
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But many of Napoleon's greatest battles lasted only a day and were never to be fought again.... As such, the more apt analogy might be that of Gorsky at the Bolshoi.† (source)analogy = a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
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Detached from mankind—thrust back with sharp insults or, simply, blank stares by those whose activities he indifferently impedes—fawned over by fools who, in an analogous situation, cannot walk past a sleeping dog without calling to it and holding out their fingers—smiled at by children who tomorrow will frown or fawn, like their parents—the policeman little by little slides away from whatever comfortable humanity he may once have shared with his neighbors.† (source)analogous = similar in some respect
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At the time, Ruth thought the analogies and advice were simplistic.† (source)analogies = comparisons of different things to point to shared characteristics
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