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as in symbolical
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as in mythological
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Recent Examples of allegorical
The allegorical painting is routinely interpreted as a message that death is always just around the corner.
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Ivan Amato, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2025
McCrae, too, approaches Dante’s allegorical vision with an urgency derived from a struggle that collapses the personal and the social, until the metaphysical realm seems the only possible stage.
—Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The allegorical imagery partly found its allure from costume designer Lisy Christl.
—Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
The music video is a visual interpretation of lyrics that seemingly have Abel addressing a child, from the perspective of a parent, with an allegorical title referencing the Ethiopian Red Terror, a period of violet political repression that resulted in the deaths of thousands in the late ’70s.
—Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2025
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Ivan Amato, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2025
McCrae, too, approaches Dante’s allegorical vision with an urgency derived from a struggle that collapses the personal and the social, until the metaphysical realm seems the only possible stage.
—Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The allegorical imagery partly found its allure from costume designer Lisy Christl.
—Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
The music video is a visual interpretation of lyrics that seemingly have Abel addressing a child, from the perspective of a parent, with an allegorical title referencing the Ethiopian Red Terror, a period of violet political repression that resulted in the deaths of thousands in the late ’70s.
—Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allegorical
Adjective
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Lethe, the mythological Greek river of forgetfulness, is compared to the potent plant poison, and the speaker implores the reader to refuse both.—
Laura Murphy,
JSTOR Daily,
28 Feb. 2025
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, the mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the 7th century B.C. was likely stolen from an archaeological museum in Olympia in the 1930s.—
Graham Bowley,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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In Baraka’s play, the setting of the underground train was seen as symbolic for America perpetually traveling the same course.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
8 Mar. 2025
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And Hutson not wanting to go on the ice by himself was symbolic of that timing, and why it was timed that way.—
Arpon Basu,
The Athletic,
8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Unlike the more familiar real numbers – positive and negative integers, fractions, square roots, cube roots and even numbers such as pi – complex numbers have an imaginary component.—
William Ross,
The Conversation,
10 Mar. 2025
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The system that most captured his imagination was an imaginary device that had launched the field of computer science, the Turing machine.—
Charlie Wood,
Quanta Magazine,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Medina’s fanciful dog costumes mostly combine monochrome onesies with patches and other accessories for a cheery array of colors, while MC Dog’s costume nods to traditional Latin American patterns and Hattie’s hot pink look is accented with ruffles and glitter.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
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What is meant to be fanciful can feel tedious at times.—
Elizabeth Toohey,
The Christian Science Monitor,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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That was the battle cry of an industry post-COVID, the strikes and a collective depression (both literal and figurative).—
Julie Plec,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Feb. 2025
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Even fewer contain figurative imagery on their walls.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This exchange is emblematic of their close but often adversarial relationship: two similarly bloody-minded women who are always butting heads.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
9 Mar. 2025
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The result Friday was emblematic of differing path between the two franchises.—
Chris Biderman,
Sacramento Bee,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Allegorical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allegorical. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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