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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dead metaphors
Noun
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In a year of cancellations and euphemisms, the city mounted a counterprogram that was quietly insurrectionary, stubbornly joyous.—
The Editors,
Curbed,
15 Dec. 2025 -
And even ages 8 to 10 should be OK, depending on your thoughts about PG romantic intimacy and use of clever euphemisms.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
20 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Postnature, then, demands a subjectivity that is plural and decenters the human; a postnatural ethics seeks to blur the boundaries between human and nature, crafting new metaphors for the permeability and porousness of life-forms.—
Catherine Taft,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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Though the rope suggests tidy metaphors of unity, coherence, and formal integrity, a playful but insistent messiness effloresces in Simms’s entanglements, throwing any seeming wholeness into question.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Eighth-generation master distiller Freddie Noe did not spare any football analogies when describing the whiskey and the collaborative process.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
15 Jan. 2026
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But the historical analogies have clear flaws.—
Morgan Marietta,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2026
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“Dead metaphors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead%20metaphors. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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