The teacher analogised swotting for an exam in terms of marathon training.
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Analogize
Synonyms for "analogize" (15 found)
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Korean
1 entries- 유추하다 verb (to express as an analogy)
Polish
1 entries- analogizować verb (to express as an analogy)
Portuguese
1 entries- analogizar verb (to express as an analogy)
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Repulsion over polygamy is so ingrained in the American consciousness — analogizing it to slavery, the Republican platform of 1856 called it one of the country’s “twin relics of barbarism” — that judgmentally reveling in the exotic perversions of “Big Love” feels like something on the order of a national right.
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Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter.
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Writing objective history or raising a teenager may be like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall, as those and other challenging tasks have been popularly analogized.
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