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Analogies were eliminated in 2005 after academics claimed they were culturally biased.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Analogies use an object that is known to draw inferences about other similar objects.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Analogies that may have been comforting when they set thousands of deaths beside tens of millions have become less so as the difference in the number of zeros has decreased.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2022

Analogies to Hitler and Stalin should be avoided.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2022

Analogies and homologies in these phenomena must be accounted for in some other way.

From On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data by Powell, John Wesley