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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apologue
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Hurston’s novel is therefore usually read as an allegory of Emancipation, the flight from Egypt as an escape from the bondage of slavery.—
Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025 -
Corbet’s profile in the New Yorker tried to sweep him into cinema’s Pantheon by interpreting The Brutalist as a post-election anti-Trump allegory.—
Armond White,
National Review,
3 Jan. 2025
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The old transmissibility of truth presented in holy doctrine, tradition, parables, had decayed into near silence.—
Joy Williams,
Harper's Magazine,
2 May 2024
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Elegant and spare, this is an environmental parable that doesn’t hammer away at its message.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
4 Dec. 2024
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Loading your audio article There’s an old fable about a frog in a boiling pot of water.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
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The Brutalist is a Fitzcarraldo fable of artistic endeavor, a universal immigrant tale and a searing indictment of capitalism Jones plays opposite Brody as Tóth’s wife, Erzsébet, in an indelible portrait of a woman physically broken by war who remains resolutely unbroken in spirit.—
Wendell Steavenson,
Vogue,
5 Jan. 2025
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Per old wives’ tales, nesting is a phenomenon that happens near the end of gestation: a maternal instinct to prepare for birth.—
Betty Liu,
Bon Appétit,
20 Jan. 2025
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This incident serves as a cautionary tale for companies deploying AI in their communications.—
Rebekah Bastian,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Apologue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apologue. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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