as in to compare
to describe as similar
analogized the White House scandal to a cancer that was spreading to every internal organ of the body
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Not so long ago, that analogizing was the work of shamans, imams, and ministers.
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Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
In the past three weeks, Biden has hardly been alone in analogizing October 7 and September 11, and in suggesting that Israel might benefit from studying the American experience.
—Michael A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2023
Even in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data and the androids like him were analogized to humanity’s ugly history of slavery—the grotesque dream of free labor that never questions, never fights back.
—Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
Lloyd can explain it only by analogizing anti-racist pedagogy to brainwashing.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
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Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
In the past three weeks, Biden has hardly been alone in analogizing October 7 and September 11, and in suggesting that Israel might benefit from studying the American experience.
—Michael A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2023
Even in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data and the androids like him were analogized to humanity’s ugly history of slavery—the grotesque dream of free labor that never questions, never fights back.
—Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
Lloyd can explain it only by analogizing anti-racist pedagogy to brainwashing.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
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“Analogize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/analogize. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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