variants
or analogs
as in images
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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
Neuroscientists proceeded to look for biological analogues in mouse brains, and were pleased to discover them.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
The commercial humorously cuts to everyday viewers — who might as well be analogs for us on the couch — enraptured by Spears' girl-next-door effervescence.
—Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
Perhaps the most revealing analogues are the widespread age restrictions for the purchase and consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis, which are common around the world and have been extensively studied.
—Keith Humphreys, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2026
In Germany, AMSilk provides Biosteel® fibers (analogues of spider silk) that are labeled vegan-friendly.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
With the conservative majority’s Second Amendment test requiring states to justify gun measures with historical analogues, Hawaii and other states have turned to the Black Codes to justify gun control efforts.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2026
The analogs to staking on other assets have also crossed over to BTC, where holders want consistent ways to grow their stack without risking principal.
—Alexander S. Blume, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
According to senior author Jonah Piovia-Scott, Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at WSU Vancouver, there’s plenty of active research into building beaver-dam analogues (BDAs) woven from willow and other plant matter.
—New Atlas, 28 Dec. 2025
Germany most explicitly spells out the duty to disobey unlawful orders (nobody has ever questioned the duty to obey lawful ones, obviously), while France, Britain, Israel and other Western countries have analogs.
—Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2025
Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
The commercial humorously cuts to everyday viewers — who might as well be analogs for us on the couch — enraptured by Spears' girl-next-door effervescence.
—Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
Perhaps the most revealing analogues are the widespread age restrictions for the purchase and consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis, which are common around the world and have been extensively studied.
—Keith Humphreys, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2026
In Germany, AMSilk provides Biosteel® fibers (analogues of spider silk) that are labeled vegan-friendly.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
With the conservative majority’s Second Amendment test requiring states to justify gun measures with historical analogues, Hawaii and other states have turned to the Black Codes to justify gun control efforts.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2026
The analogs to staking on other assets have also crossed over to BTC, where holders want consistent ways to grow their stack without risking principal.
—Alexander S. Blume, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
According to senior author Jonah Piovia-Scott, Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at WSU Vancouver, there’s plenty of active research into building beaver-dam analogues (BDAs) woven from willow and other plant matter.
—New Atlas, 28 Dec. 2025
Germany most explicitly spells out the duty to disobey unlawful orders (nobody has ever questioned the duty to obey lawful ones, obviously), while France, Britain, Israel and other Western countries have analogs.
—Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for analogues
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As the investigation into the shooting unfolded, detectives showed still images of Neves-Valente taken from surveillance video to several shooting victims.—
Ashley Carnahan,
FOXNews.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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Milan — Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych says the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has banned him from wearing his helmet featuring images of athletes killed during the war in Ukraine.—
Aleks Klosok,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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For the research, the scientists searched for lambda hyperons and their antimatter counterparts, antilambdas.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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Cabot experienced firsthand the extremity of public shaming that women have long experienced when in the negative spotlight of the media, one their male counterparts often seem to avoid.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
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There’s already a gigantic pile of celebrity talk programs in the podcasting space—many of them weak clones of other lo-fi interview podcasts, most obviously WTF With Marc Maron, which ended last year.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2026
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To delineate the murine C3aR coding sequence, gene structure, 5′-flanking region, and chromosome location, cDNA and genomic clones encoding the mouse C3a receptor were isolated, characterized, and used in fluorescence in situ hybridization experiments.—
Kirstin R.W. Matthews,
STAT,
3 Feb. 2026
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As of the end of the latest quarter, the four leaders had a total of over $420 billion in cash and equivalents.—
Jennifer Elias,
CNBC,
6 Feb. 2026
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Colorado and Oregon are also reporting their lowest snow water equivalents to date, with Montana approaching its lowest snow water equivalent to date.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
5 Feb. 2026
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My photographs—portraits, landscapes, still lives, and spaces both vast and claustrophobic—reveal cultural double standards and impermanence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Feb. 2026
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Focusing on Mapplethorpe’s aesthetic research, the exhibition features over 200 works, tracing the evolution of Mapplethorpe’s visual language through themes like portraits, self-portraits, flowers and nudes.—
Andrea Onate,
Footwear News,
6 Feb. 2026
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Deuxmoi showed pictures of McRae and Hughes dining at Anton’s in the West Village the month prior.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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In these 2-foot-square pictures, long-haired nude female figures in close Edenic companionship with wild beasts poke their heads out from behind lush tropical foliage, and stare, unsettlingly, straight outward.—
Benjamin Lima,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Montana also learned to see parallels between great founders and elite athletes.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
8 Feb. 2026
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The platform grew out of earlier work in licensing and registration technology, where Darnell recognized parallels between regulatory systems and animal services.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
8 Feb. 2026
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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 15 Feb. 2026.
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