ANALOGS Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

analogues

noun

variants or analogs

plural of analogue

as in images

formal 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 analogues The researchers also considered case studies from analogs including Antarctic research missions and time aboard submarines or oil rigs, as some examples. — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 9 July 2026 Humans have no innate cognitive machinery designed to string letters into words and connect them to their real-world analogues. — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026 To be clear, however, operations on phi-bits are not quantum computations, only classical analogues of quantum computer systems. — IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2026 The number of distinct fentanyl analogs reported to the UNODC subsequently plummeted, while reports of nitazenes quickly picked up. — Jonathan Moens — Bellingcat, STAT, 18 June 2026 Throughout history, researchers have found mathematical analogs of Higgs mode in various materials. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026 But 749 died after taking fentanyl and fentanyl analogues. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 May 2026 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. — Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2026 Neuroscientists proceeded to look for biological analogues in mouse brains, and were pleased to discover them. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026

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Noun

The hard drive alone contained nearly 500 gigabytes of files and thousands of explicit videos and images of children, including one roughly nine-minute video of a toddler performing oral sex on a grown man, court documents show.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
The images her sister captured after the strike show the trajectory of the projectile, which ripped through floor after floor, and left a gaping hole covered in a thick layer of white dust.

— Ava Bambuck, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of images

Noun

For all their unity, its North American and Asian counterparts stopped short of matching that threat.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
Chinese shipyards are capable of producing large warships far more quickly than most of their international counterparts, enabling the People’s Liberation Army Navy to steadily increase both its operational strength and global reach.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of counterparts

Noun

Iosseliani’s poetic portraits of life on the Soviet periphery range from neorealist documentation of collective farms to playful snapshots of Tbilisi, with a light touch reminiscent of the French New Wave.

— Rhoda Feng, New Yorker, 31 July 2026
At the time, the space was filled with tables and shelves overflowing with antiques, tchotchkes and vintage portraits from a lifetime of collecting.

— Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026

Definition of portraits

Noun

Instead, Shemica, Luis and Immanuel’s pictures are on display on the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department’s cold case website.

— Maveah Griffith, Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2026
An Intensity Slider – a simple sliding bar adjustment for controlling the depth, vibrancy, brightness and contrast of the TV’s pictures to compensate for viewing angles, onscreen reflections and simply different viewing tastes.

— John Archer, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of pictures

Noun

Wuest was also fascinated by the themes explored by the film, and couldn’t help but notice parallels to our current moment.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026
There’s another comparison between Homer and the Bible that demonstrates parallels between Jesus and Odysseus while asserting Jesus’ superiority,MacDonald says.

— John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of parallels

Noun

Unlike conventional porous carbons, which interact only weakly with polysulfides, COFs possess periodically arranged pores whose dimensions, chemical environments, and electronic characteristics can be programmed by design.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026
While the backbone is always the same, the number of carbons in the fatty acids can vary.

— Rosemary Trout, The Conversation, 10 June 2026

Definition of carbons

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