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
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
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
Around this figure, which was of life size, there was a sort of glory, composed of miniatures, allegorically expressing the Thousand Virtues of Buddha.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis
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