Sample Sentences for
analogy
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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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    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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    Change the analogy from bread to medicine, and you will feel the same urgency I do.  (source)
    analogy = a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
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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)
    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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    It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.†  (source)
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    Time, something expressed analogously with numbers, goes entirely awry in battle, as you must know.†  (source)
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    By analogy with IPL, Ender decided the letters meant Inter-Stellar Launch.†  (source)
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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)
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    Analogies and impressions: a face seen through a wet pane of glass;†  (source)
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    The only analogy I could come up with wasn't a very good one.†  (source)
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    This holy place, established in 1869, was dedicated to the spirits of all the Japanese who had died in wars against foreign powers, and could be thought roughly analogous, in terms of its symbolism for the nation, to the Arlington National Cemetery — with the difference that souls, not bodies, were hallowed there.†  (source)
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    I resist such analogies, but it is my preferred mode of operating not only in draughts but in politics.†  (source)
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