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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
Its smallest entry has always been the Go, which was claimed to be the world's smallest instant analog camera back in 2021.
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New Atlas, 10 June 2026
Eugenia was clearly based on Mitford’s sister Unity, an obsessive Hitlerite, and another sister, Diana, would marry Oswald Mosley, the leader of the Jackshirts’ real-life analogue, the British Union of Fascists, whose supporters were known as Blackshirts.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 10 June 2026
Aviation has always evolved alongside technology, from manual, analog flying to today’s highly connected and automated cockpit ecosystems.
—Tim Burns, Fortune, 9 June 2026
There was a parade of nations, perhaps overlong, but analogue and human-scale.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 9 June 2026
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New Atlas, 10 June 2026
Eugenia was clearly based on Mitford’s sister Unity, an obsessive Hitlerite, and another sister, Diana, would marry Oswald Mosley, the leader of the Jackshirts’ real-life analogue, the British Union of Fascists, whose supporters were known as Blackshirts.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 10 June 2026
Aviation has always evolved alongside technology, from manual, analog flying to today’s highly connected and automated cockpit ecosystems.
—Tim Burns, Fortune, 9 June 2026
There was a parade of nations, perhaps overlong, but analogue and human-scale.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 9 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for analogue
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The last image was another of the couple together, with Derek once again holding Rumer’s belly.—
Laura Millar,
PEOPLE,
12 June 2026
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The images showed how quarks carrying different fractions of the pion’s momentum are distributed across the particle.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
12 June 2026
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The neighborhood/area Bilbao has an industrial character that is both more modern and more traditional than its popular counterpart, San Sebastián, and the Artist sits in the revitalized upper edge of the Abando District.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 June 2026
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The head is brown to black and has several ivory to yellowish spots, which helps separate it from its native counterpart, the smoke-tree sharpshooter.—
Seamus Bozeman
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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David Hockney, the British artist most famous for his 1960s paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools and double portraits rendered in vivid acrylic paints, died at his London home on Thursday, June 11, at age 88.—
Constance W. Glenn,
Architectural Digest,
12 June 2026
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That year also saw Hockney’s first appearance in Vogue, a group portrait with fellow painters Howard Hodgkin, John Howlin, and Ian Stephenson.—
Robin Muir,
Vogue,
12 June 2026
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And then the other is thinking directly about carbon release and applications that involve changing the microbiome in cattle to avoid the emission of methane.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
11 June 2026
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The fungi then siphon the carbon into the soil, supporting pretty much all life on the planet.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
11 June 2026
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Galen, known as the father of modern medicine, started out as a doctor for gladiators—the equivalent of a residency on The Pitt.—
Cullen Murphy,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2026
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College football has no equivalent.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 June 2026
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There are some parallels with the 1966 World Cup, when the host nation, England, initially refused to grant visas to the North Korean squad due to the absence of diplomatic relations between the two countries.—
Simon Chadwick,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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In the early days of the company, physical operations and digital marketing functioned in parallel but lacked a truly conversational flow.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
11 June 2026
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Live Share enables real-time collaborative editing and debugging without requiring teammates to clone repos or configure matching environments.—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
10 June 2026
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Statistically, Llamas and Kyles are virtual clones in some categories.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 June 2026
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The film won three Oscars and has since been widely cited as one of Hollywood’s most influential portrayals of the tech industry.—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
10 June 2026
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No one from the previous cast is returning for The Social Reckoning, and that includes Jesse Eisenberg, whose acclaimed portrayal of Zuckberg earned him an Academy Award nomination.—
Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 June 2026
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“Analogue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/analogue. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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