as in allegory
a story intended to teach a basic truth or moral about life the parable in which the repentant sinner is compared to the returning prodigal son who is welcomed home

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Recent Examples of parable The old transmissibility of truth presented in holy doctrine, tradition, parables, had decayed into near silence. Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024 Elegant and spare, this is an environmental parable that doesn’t hammer away at its message. Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024 Some people come to listen, some to vent, some to mull the parables through fogs of addiction or mental illness. Moriah Ratner, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024 Even absent conscious efforts to use them strategically, parables in pop culture can inform how audiences think about real-world politics—often in ways that authors don’t necessarily intend. Charli Carpenter, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2019 See All Example Sentences for parable
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Noun
  • It’s been described as an allegory for current issues such as climate change.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Crouch used a canonical children’s fantasy movie as allegory for the the legal hurdles the district faced in relation to the proposal to split.
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Many of our favorite stories, fables and rhymes came from the volumes of the set of Childcraft Books published in 1954 which accompany our family’s ages-old set of World Book Encyclopedias.
    Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Drawing on ancient folklore, fables and myths, Chainey’s film was branded a ‘folk horror’, a promise the film could not live up to.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The six-part podcast series unravels the twisted tale of Stover, his ex-wife, the heiress, and the bodyguard.
    KC Baker, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The romance drama is billed as an original tale of two strangers and the extraordinary emotional journey that connects them.
    Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2025

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“Parable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parable. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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