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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 analogues
Meanwhile, the battery’s positive electrode, uses Prussian Blue analogs, which are non-toxic iron compounds first discovered as pigments more than 200 years ago.
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
Slop’s pervasiveness beckons people to reach for analogues.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
With further analogues in Scythian, Latvian, and Hittite, many researchers now think that the early Indo-Europeans prayed to a sky father known as something like Dyeus Puhter.
—Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Franklin’s closest analogues coaching today are Lane Kiffin and Brian Kelly.
—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Amylin Treatments Metsera’s drug belongs to a class called long-acting amylin analogues.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
In the coming months and years, Dasgupta suggests, other drugs—potentially including nitazene analogues, as well as certain sedatives his lab has also detected in the drug supply—may become more prominent in the market and fill gaps fentanyl is leaving.
—Connor Greene, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
These types of ingredients are called analogs, Palermino explains.
—Dani Hardman, Allure, 15 Sep. 2025
For now, scientists will continue to test analogs on Earth, such as microorganisms in Antarctic lakes that interact with sulfate minerals.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
Slop’s pervasiveness beckons people to reach for analogues.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
With further analogues in Scythian, Latvian, and Hittite, many researchers now think that the early Indo-Europeans prayed to a sky father known as something like Dyeus Puhter.
—Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Franklin’s closest analogues coaching today are Lane Kiffin and Brian Kelly.
—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Amylin Treatments Metsera’s drug belongs to a class called long-acting amylin analogues.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
In the coming months and years, Dasgupta suggests, other drugs—potentially including nitazene analogues, as well as certain sedatives his lab has also detected in the drug supply—may become more prominent in the market and fill gaps fentanyl is leaving.
—Connor Greene, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
These types of ingredients are called analogs, Palermino explains.
—Dani Hardman, Allure, 15 Sep. 2025
For now, scientists will continue to test analogs on Earth, such as microorganisms in Antarctic lakes that interact with sulfate minerals.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for analogues
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The assassination of Charlie Kirk raised fears of political violence in America as well as questions about the responsibility of social media companies pertaining to images of violence posted on their platforms.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Campaign ads, showing images of flash-mob robberies, promised voters that harsher penalties would put an end to basic items being locked away in display cases and funnel people repeatedly arrested for drug offenses in treatment.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Experts say many multinational firms are adopting dual leadership models, where global business unit heads in India co-own strategy and product outcomes with their counterparts at headquarters.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
6 Nov. 2025
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Specifically, supernovae derived from younger stellar populations appear fainter, while their older counterparts appear brighter.—
Ian Randall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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That’s why this album opened the door for all the Eighties bar-band faux-Bruce clones.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
2 Nov. 2025
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Fast forward a few decades, and today Chris and his wife Kathryn make excellent Chardonnay wines in homage to Richard using Dijon, Wente, and Mendoza clones.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
30 Oct. 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
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Tombs, anvils, boats, villages, guns, portraits, fiddle toys.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Outsize portraits of all three are hauled down endless streets as crowds of obligatory fans parade their wheelbarrows, shovels and carbines.—
Will Tizard,
Variety,
2 Nov. 2025
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The video showed dozens of videos and pictures sent to her, all featuring people eating McDonald's fries as a show of solidarity.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Go through a corn maze, sip on apple cider, and take silly pictures with the cardboard cutouts.—
Kylie Petty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Oct. 2025
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What once seemed like a dark and distant fantasy now has eerie parallels with our tumultuous present.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
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Norvell’s victory came with 63,000 in attendance, a respectable crowd given the skepticism in the air, but the parallels are impossible to ignore.—
D’Joumbarey Moreau,
Miami Herald,
5 Nov. 2025
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The lipids used to make fats and the cell membrane are built up two carbons at a time.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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Instead of destroying the molecules (which is what most people thought would happen), the beam caused the hydrogens to detach and the carbons to link up, thereby slowly building up a diamond lattice.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Analogues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/analogues. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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