analogized

past tense of analogize
as in compared
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 analogized If the population could be analogized to a single human body, then its immune system would rely on a concert of action and purpose between each cell. Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026 Some have analogized ultralights to other planes as motorcycles are to cars, which begins to explain the stigma some pilots have seen applied to the recreational act of flying them, particularly when launched from airports. Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 14 Dec. 2025
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  • For example, in Gaines County, Texas, the epicenter of the 2025 West Texas outbreak, kindergarteners’ measles vaccination rate was 82 percent compared with about 93 percent nationally.
    Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Whether taken on its own or compared with another women’s-rage show like the recent Furious, The Lizzie Borden Story has all the depth of a papercut.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
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  • The character is a type-A perfect student who never has a single hair out of place — a way of being that Gerber has stepped into after years in the fashion industry where perfection is often equated with sublime beauty.
    Michel Ghanem, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
  • And even when cannabis was prohibited, neither sentencing guidelines nor the public equated its dangers with crack.
    Jonathan Caulkins, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2026

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“Analogized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/analogized. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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