allegorically
Americanadverb
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Instead, they often use robots or AI allegorically, assigning them victim or villain roles in order to comment on the state of humanity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
If the role of women in Game of Thrones was not entirely clear when it first premiered in 2012, neither were the future events that would make those fictional women so allegorically powerful.
From Slate ● May 13, 2019
But don’t most of us, nonbelievers and believers alike, often substitute one thing for another—which is to say, read the world allegorically?
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
It allegorically pits the enlightened orchestra leader against a Machiavellian “Overseer;” the two play cards in an obscure battle for black humanity.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2018
"The aunt, to whom one of the daughters is consigned, figures allegorically as the convent," says the author, "that word being forbidden to be pronounced on the Italian stage."
From The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Carlo Goldoni
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