Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
parable or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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parable + -like
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Examples
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These plot devices, along with Mr. Peña's arch conception of Redford, ultimately prevent "Flipzoids" from transcending its parablelike construction.
NYT > Home Page By ERIC GRODE 2011
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These plot devices, along with Mr. Peña's arch conception of Redford, ultimately prevent "Flipzoids" from transcending its parablelike construction.
NYT > Home Page By ERIC GRODE 2011
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In the absurdist, parablelike "Top of the Whale," also made in 1981, an anthropologist studying the last two members of an Indian tribe in Tierra del Fuego finds that they speak a language consisting of one word.
NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM GRIMES 2011
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