parables
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But among contemporary socio-economic parables, Mr. Park’s latest is an amusingly cutting one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
Buffett’s lessons and parables remind me of the volatility in technology stocks this year.
From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025
I was so green in the world that I hadn’t accepted there could be parables without a moral, questions without an answer.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
But Martin’s stories, along with being informed by actual history, are parables of power struggles among the ruling classes.
From Salon • Jul. 18, 2024
“It is similar to telling parables, but in the white man’s language,” I concluded.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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