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Noun
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What’s the difference between a simile and a metaphor?—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025 -
No metaphors or similes or hyperbolic language needed here – your kids are next.—
Rob Gagnon,
Hartford Courant,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Consultants said to expect to continue hearing a variety of euphemisms about tariffs and their impact on prices.—
Jordyn Holman,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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Americans have been living in unprecedented times – a very nice euphemism for constant crisis – for nearly a decade.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
Noun
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During a Cannes Festival press conference earlier this month, Lee drew an analogy between awards shows and basketball.—
Rance Collins,
IndieWire,
31 May 2025
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Going back to train analogies, think of John Henry, the 19th-century folk hero.—
Greg Edwards,
The Conversation,
30 May 2025
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Here, instead, she’s swayed by a dead Diana softly squeezing her hand and kindly hinting — the dead Diana is an ace at tactful circumlocution — that now is the time to show a mourning nation some emotion.—
Tom Gliatto,
Peoplemag,
16 Nov. 2023
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By condensing Balzac’s opus to a few paragraphs, Barthelme was having a laugh not just at his predecessor’s genteel circumlocution—his tendency to describe buildings and manufacturing procedures and family trees in lavish detail—but also at the conventions of novelistic mimesis itself.—
Giles Harvey,
The New York Review of Books,
23 Apr. 2020
Noun
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Cats, however, may turn out to be the canaries in the coalmines — pardon the mixed metaphor.—
Jan Ellen Spiegel,
Hartford Courant,
24 Dec. 2024
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Cats, however, may turn out to be the canaries in the coalmines — pardon the mixed metaphor.—
Jan Ellen Spiegel,
Hartford Courant,
24 Dec. 2024
Noun
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That is the administration’s code word for both climate programs and ones seeking to encourage diversity, equity and inclusion.—
Natalie Proulx,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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Halbreich told me that prominent art institutions are already using code words, like community, to talk about diversity.—
Rachel Corbett,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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To extend the metaphor, love might not save the house but needs saving from it, to be kept alive in new forms of shelter before the rebuild.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
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Today, technical debt has become a popular metaphor for communicating the long-term implications of architectural decisions.—
Shilpa Shastri,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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“Catachresis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catachresis. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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