as in to compare
to describe as similar analogized the White House scandal to a cancer that was spreading to every internal organ of the body

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Recent Examples of analogize Fleck analogized it to putting up an adorable cat filter during a video meeting. Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025 Some may analogize that to trying to measure up players in high school or Jr. B to major junior. Corey Pronman, New York Times, 1 May 2025 But by hyperbolically analogizing, Mishra seems to be intentionally salting Jewish wounds. Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2025 Staking is often analogized to depositing (and locking-in) your funds in a bank account, in which the bank then uses and pays you interest in return. Timothy M. Todd, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for analogize
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  • As of June 30, debt stood at 95.7 million euros, net of the IFRS 16 effect compared with 135.2 million euros at the end of June last year.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Excluding the negative impact of the U.S. operations, Del Monte Pacific would have posted a $10.9 million net profit in the year ended April 2025, compared with a $24.9 million net loss a year ago.
    Ian Sayson, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
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  • The price currently equates for a base rate in the region of 3.75%—representing a cut of two measures from the Fed.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Quite literally mimicking the effect of watercolor paint on paper, pro makeup artist Kasey Spickard equates its rise in popularity to beauty’s shift towards skincare-makeup hybrids as another take on a natural flush—perhaps even a reactionary response to the heavy matte makeup of the 2010s.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 31 July 2025

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“Analogize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/analogize. Accessed 15 Aug. 2025.

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