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Noun
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Certainly Lockwood’s skill with metaphors has not waned.—
Paul McAdory,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025 -
Chinese doctors warned clinicians that patients may deploy Confucian metaphors framing hereditary cancer as moral condemnation.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Foreign observers, too, found analogies to the nineteenth-century Russian intelligentsia irresistible.—
Benjamin Nathans
September 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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What kind of discourse can draw out such analogies while simultaneously acknowledging and preserving difference?—
Zadie Smith,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Dead metaphors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead%20metaphors. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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