allegorically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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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
In Farid ud-Din Attar’s 12th-century poem, the birds travel through a succession of allegorically named valleys where they are confronted with human vices and stupidities.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2022
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
You have to read them allegorically, as fables about the relative weakness of innocence and the bottomless malice of the universe.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017
Afyre, on fire, 30, 251; hence, used allegorically, in love, 2436.
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
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