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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mixed metaphors
Noun
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Researchers at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science have created two prototype devices that demonstrate what’s possible.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025 -
The Russian devices can disrupt satellite operations, blind satellites, manipulate or kinetically destroy them, Pistorius said, according to Reuters.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 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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“Mixed metaphors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mixed%20metaphors. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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