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as in metaphors
a way of describing or explaining one thing by means of describing another with which it shares certain points or qualities
The teacher used the analogy of a common pipeline to explain bandwidth on the Internet.
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as in similarities
resemblance in certain points or qualities between two or more otherwise unlike things
The study made note of analogies between human and ape social behavior.
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Recent Examples of analogies
Here was a program that could translate as well as an expert, make analogies, extemporize, generalize.
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James Somers, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Max’s wide range of uses has prompted analogies to China’s WeChat.
—Justin Sherman, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
When the United States joined NATO in 1949, American policymakers pointed to the Rio Pact as a precedent and drew analogies between the alliance’s founding document, the North Atlantic Treaty, and the Monroe Doctrine.
—Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
Where words divide, the Saint Laurent aesthetic creates space to breathe and invent new analogies.
—Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
People make close, intense bonds when stuck in the Big Brother house together, and Vince and Morgan’s dynamic crosses more lines with each passing day, emotional cheating threatening to tip into physical even as Vince continues to hopelessly cloak his feelings in flimsy analogies and code phrases.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
Foreign observers, too, found analogies to the nineteenth-century Russian intelligentsia irresistible.
—Benjamin Nathans
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
The judges jumped in to suggest Kilaru’s analogies weren’t so convincing in the context of a football player like Pavia, who has a limited window to earn NIL money.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Create 5 different metaphors or analogies that would make this idea immediately clear to THIS specific client based on their background and references.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
James Somers, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Max’s wide range of uses has prompted analogies to China’s WeChat.
—Justin Sherman, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
When the United States joined NATO in 1949, American policymakers pointed to the Rio Pact as a precedent and drew analogies between the alliance’s founding document, the North Atlantic Treaty, and the Monroe Doctrine.
—Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
Where words divide, the Saint Laurent aesthetic creates space to breathe and invent new analogies.
—Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
People make close, intense bonds when stuck in the Big Brother house together, and Vince and Morgan’s dynamic crosses more lines with each passing day, emotional cheating threatening to tip into physical even as Vince continues to hopelessly cloak his feelings in flimsy analogies and code phrases.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
Foreign observers, too, found analogies to the nineteenth-century Russian intelligentsia irresistible.
—Benjamin Nathans
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
The judges jumped in to suggest Kilaru’s analogies weren’t so convincing in the context of a football player like Pavia, who has a limited window to earn NIL money.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Create 5 different metaphors or analogies that would make this idea immediately clear to THIS specific client based on their background and references.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for analogies
Noun
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The novella is a haunted house, dual point of view ride where the metaphors from the top down are consistently delivered.—
Amber McBride,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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The writer son makes metaphors out of the garden—indeed, out of the very idea of the garden-as-metaphor—while the father, who told great stories but was entirely unliterary, made a garden out of the earth.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The election bears some similarities to New York City’s, with both Fateh and Zohran Mamdani as 30-something, Muslim, Democratic Socialists who have proposed rent stabilization policies.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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Wadisuchus kassabi is both a new species and the first member of a new genus, or group of species that share physical similarities and an evolutionary line.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025
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Since launching in 2012, Candy Crush Saga has remained one of the most popular games on mobile devices, accruing millions of daily players.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
6 Nov. 2025
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On the hardware side over 10+ million devices have been built around a recovery phrase by default, entrenching a market expectation in which seed phrases are the go-to recovery method, even as some vendors add alternatives.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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By 1974, though, many women had already discarded those notions as instruments of domination, psychic equivalents of the whalebone corset.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Ancient book clasps — used to keep manuscript tomes shut — were uncovered at the site, along with styli, the medieval equivalents of pens and pencils.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
30 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Analogies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/analogies. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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