as in analogies
an elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something
"it's raining cats and dogs" is just a colorful metaphor and not a meteorological announcement
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Recent Examples of metaphors
The movie adaptation is also rife with metaphors about boys becoming men and overcoming life-or-death circumstances to make it out the other side.
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
These metaphors revealed how patience, agility, resilience, and sovereignty can underpin modern venture strategies.
—Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Ninagawa uses visual spectacle and elaborate visual metaphors to bring out the inner life of the play.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Instead of turning the actual evils into metaphors.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
There are countless metaphors used to describe the craft of translation, and one is of carrying something—meaning, in essence—from one place to another.
—Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
Earth acknowledges that kids watch kids entertainment, not metaphors.
—James Grebey, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
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
Brian Truitt, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
These metaphors revealed how patience, agility, resilience, and sovereignty can underpin modern venture strategies.
—Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Ninagawa uses visual spectacle and elaborate visual metaphors to bring out the inner life of the play.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Instead of turning the actual evils into metaphors.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
There are countless metaphors used to describe the craft of translation, and one is of carrying something—meaning, in essence—from one place to another.
—Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
Earth acknowledges that kids watch kids entertainment, not metaphors.
—James Grebey, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for metaphors
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Create 5 different metaphors or analogies that would make this idea immediately clear to THIS specific client based on their background and references.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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The Munich Agreement The Munich Agreement – the deal that ceded the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler’s Germany in a bid to avert war in Europe — is the granddaddy of historical analogies.—
Nathan Hodge,
CNN Money,
23 Aug. 2025
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New downloads of Weather are no longer possible on Wear OS 6 devices from third-party manufacturers, such as Samsung, OnePlus and others.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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Why Healthcare Needs a Data Overhaul Healthcare systems are generating more data than ever before, from electronic health records and lab results to imaging scans, insurance claims, and even patient updates from wearable devices.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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One of Weapons’ conceits is its chapter structure centering on particular characters, and sources say that Cregger actually had a chapter focused on Gladys and some of her backstory.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Aug. 2025
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All the conceits of a true-crime film are there – the lead detective interviews, shaky images from police-cams, the salacious headlines, the nauseating crime scene photos, the TV news reports, teary interviews with friends and family.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
7 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Metaphors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metaphors. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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