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To allegorise the competitiveness of economic life as a thrilling virtual sport – one that players enjoy watching as well as competing in – is at least a fleeting aesthetic comfort.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2018

What discussions are and aren’t made available to the filmmakers allegorise the implicit tension within the campaign tale.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2018

Lucian.—It did so, and the ablest defenders of paganism were forced to give up the poetical fables and allegorise the whole.

From Dialogues of the Dead by Morley, Henry

By this singular fact we are led to this important discovery, that to allegorise is no difficult affair, for the present allegory was “the work of a single morning!”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

But to allegorise and sermonise is out of place here.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes