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Noun
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With his calm demeanor and distinctive baritone, Biggie exhibited a rare talent for painting pictures with his bars, delivering a complex rhyme scheme of double entendres and metaphors that has kept him on the Mount Rushmore of rap for any true connoisseur of the genre.—
Shirley Halperin for The Hollywood Reporter,
Robb Report,
1 Mar. 2025 -
Powerful metaphors shape perception.—
Ann Kowal Smith,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Historical analogies can influence sound defense policy decision-making only so much.—
Stephen Biddle,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Mar. 2025
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Your app’s plans for growth AI can’t think symbolically or in analogies.—
Steve Rodda,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Dead metaphors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead%20metaphors. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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