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something that is similar to something else in design, origin, use, etc.; something that is analogous to something else
a modern analog to what happened before the synthetic analog of a chemical found in a tropical tree a meat analogue such as tofu
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Recent Examples of analogue
When the smoke shop market got flooded with cheap synthetic analogs designed to mimic the effects of real mushroom products, the price floor collapsed overnight.
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Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2026
To find out more about the analog supercar, check out the full story here.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 May 2026
One seems to have an analog clock built into the rear camera island.
—Dominic Preston, The Verge, 1 May 2026
One of Apple Core’s regular clients is Intercom Techs, a small business focused on repairing and replacing analog systems, owned by husband-and-wife team Suleyka Henriquez, 35, and Stalyn Henriquez, 46.
—New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
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Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2026
To find out more about the analog supercar, check out the full story here.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 May 2026
One seems to have an analog clock built into the rear camera island.
—Dominic Preston, The Verge, 1 May 2026
One of Apple Core’s regular clients is Intercom Techs, a small business focused on repairing and replacing analog systems, owned by husband-and-wife team Suleyka Henriquez, 35, and Stalyn Henriquez, 46.
—New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for analogue
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Such pairings are one of Wilson’s strengths, his eye for portraiture matched by his skill for arranging images on the page.—
Casey Cep,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
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The image doesn’t mean the basketball gods have already penciled Dybantsa into Brooklyn’s future.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
8 May 2026
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Their Democratic counterparts have often lagged in comparison.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi pressed his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday to pursue a diplomatic resolution to the conflict and refrain from resuming hostilities during a meeting in Beijing.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
7 May 2026
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The Adam Lippes design replaced the cleaner line of the tuxedo with a wider skirt and a more formal portrait neckline, keeping the color restrained while giving the silhouette more volume.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
8 May 2026
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The imagery, made in Haiti, New York, Florida, and her current home of Los Angeles, uses both personal, documentary photographs and more surreal, formal portraits to link Cadet’s personal history to a broader meditation on the Black diasporic experience.—
Elly Fishman,
Vogue,
8 May 2026
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My goal is to also work with local nonprofits that have made progress in reducing carbon emissions.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
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Also, reusing local rubble reduces the carbon emissions from transporting heavy sand and gravel across long distances.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
7 May 2026
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Sixty-five years later, two of the most consequential business leaders of this century — Tim Cook of Apple and Reed Hastings of Netflix — have given us the corporate equivalent.—
Paul Hardart,
Fortune,
9 May 2026
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Researchers now hope to push the double copy framework even further by searching for particle-physics equivalents of other black hole features, including the event horizon itself — the boundary beyond which nothing can escape.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
9 May 2026
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The accepted wisdom in yacht design has been that the fastest ocean passages can only be achieved by multihull craft, such as the current crop of Ultim trimarans, which have three hulls in parallel and have set the big records of the past decade.—
Andrew Rice,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
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Crowder often uses the farm-to-table food and circular fashion movements as parallels to help explain her belief in confronting issues like supply chain transparency, pesticide use, and unsustainable shipping practices.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
7 May 2026
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Subsequent toy lines added more sci-fi elements and introduced Evil-Lyn, Teela’s counterpart; Faker, He-Man’s villainous clone; and Tri-Klops and Trap-Jaw, Skeletor’s assistants, among others.—
Sanat Pai RaikarAll,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
4 May 2026
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Other characters the writer co-created during this time are the supervillain Jackal and Parker’s clone Ben Reilly.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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Sarah Pidgeon stars in a spring campaign that came out right as her portrayal of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy on the series Love Story made her the style icon du jour.—
Lucy Feldman,
Time,
6 May 2026
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Antony Starr has been universally lauded for his portrayal of the mercurial Homelander.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
5 May 2026
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“Analogue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/analogue. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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