How to Use analogize in a Sentence

analogize

verb
  • So is there enough previous case law for courts to analogize to this situation?
    Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • In private and online, each side says the other slate is a pack of liars and both sides analogize the other to Donald Trump and the toxic state of national politics.
    Jonathan Handel, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Ditto their love for each other and their city, analogized to an Antarctica that’s breaking apart and must be put back together.
    Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Our tendency to analogize senators to jurors, and the Senate to a court, is not accidental.
    Adam White, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
  • And then, in what can only be analogized to a royal proclamation, Trump tweeted out a sudden change in military policy.
    Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 28 July 2017
  • In 2014, a district court held that Baidu’s search engine results were in fact protected by the First Amendment, citing Volokh’s reasoning and analogizing the search engine to a newspaper.
    Helen Norton, Slate Magazine, 22 Mar. 2017
  • Physically, these riders take a beating perhaps best analogized by football and mixed martial arts.
    Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Suvin argued that SF writers create new worlds in one of two ways: (1) by extrapolating the natural world, or (2) by analogizing with the natural world.
    Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 19 May 2010
  • McFee analogizes it to people from different countries or continents.
    Michael Olinger, The Seattle Times, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Indeed the music, with its banging, techno-style beats looped against plangent piano, analogizes Jamal’s predicament rather perfectly.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 25 Mar. 2023
  • After matter-of-factly trashing Lord Varys, analogizing him to a friend who can't stop talking behind others' backs, Varys actually walks into the room and happily munches on popcorn for the rest of the episode, much to Jones' delight.
    Jay Willis, GQ, 10 Aug. 2017
  • But pundits in awe of Silicon Valley’s prowess analogize today’s green energy companies to the disruption of landline phone businesses after the advent of cell phones or the disruption of taxis by Uber.
    Mark Mills, Fortune, 5 June 2017
  • In Noises Off, the director analogizes himself to a deity, albeit one in need of Valium and prone to catastrophically inept womanizing.
    Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • In Aspen, Reich analogized this to academic tenure—granting freedom to work on unpopular subjects or long-term projects without the demand for immediate results.
    Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 28 June 2017
  • To analogize to calculus, if human reasoning is a Riemann sum, machine learning may be the integral that results as the Riemann calculation approaches infinity.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Nonetheless, analogizing energy to digital tech remains a go-to for policymakers and pundits.
    Mark P. Mills, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
  • This is an important connection, because one might erroneously analogize white nationalism to cancers caused by somatic mutations.
    C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Microfluidics is often analogized to microelectronics, which uses transistors to amplify or switch an electronic signal.
    Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Warren, for instance, analogizes her own plan, which includes a $1.5 trillion federal procurement commitment, to the industrial policy America previously undertook for the space race and our mobilization against Nazi aggression.
    Catherine Rampell, The Denver Post, 9 June 2019

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