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analogize .
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- verb Alternative spelling of
analogize .
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- verb make an analogy
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Examples
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• The attempt by some commentators to analogise recent events in Egypt and Tunisia with Polish Solidarity is misstated.
Letters: After the fall of Mubarak, what next for Egypt? 2011
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Throughout his speech, Mr Griffin sought to analogise Choruss with ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, the three US-based collective licensing organisations.
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If you must analogise (always a dangerous activity), a better example would be an omnivore who is told he must either choose meat or veg to remain within the societal pale.
Shorter Mona Charen 2008
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To analogise to the corporate context, some people are talking about what the CEO has to do with his employees (like the President and his administration), and some people are talking about advertising (the "bully pulpit").
Obama "is not a messiah and does not act or speak like one. He's a traditionalist in many ways." Ann Althouse 2009
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Throughout his speech, Mr Griffin sought to analogise Choruss with ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, the three US-based collective licensing organisations.
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Putting on my Secret Maureen Dowd Decoder Ring, I can also analogise this campaign into Waughian terms.
Obama "had yet to learn to be laught at" and sometimes "a deeper shade of hauteur... overspread his features." Ann Althouse 2008
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Secondly, one has to ask why you and many other nationalists cannot analogise in the way I have suggested, given that for most of the masses true affinity was to locality rather than nation.
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A _dusty_ universe, however _shocked_ the poetic Doctor, whose writings analogise with --
An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell
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I then have to analogise, like, if we are in a play area or shopping for clothes, and my daughter wants to know how long she has before we go home, she knows how to ask me:
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Syncretism may involve attempts to merge and analogise several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, and thus assert an underlying unity allowing for an inclusive approach to other faiths.
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