Analogy
Analogy noun - Drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect.
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Synonyms for Analogy
Example and analogy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Example" instead a noun "Analogy".
Example
Example noun - One of a group or collection that shows what the whole is like.
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Synonyms for Example
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Related pairs
- comparison and analogy
- comparison and example
- representative and analogy
- representative and example
- symbol and analogy
- symbol and example
- sample and analogy
- sample and example
- specimen and analogy
- specimen and example
- copy and analogy
- copy and example
- representation and analogy
- representation and example
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Another example is when Bruce Wayne states that [Harvey Dent] is the face of Gotham at the party, which was meant to be an analogy of the improvement of Gotham by eliminating crime and corruption.
Source: Analogy Backfire - At least in hindsight, the first two-part story has her go through an analogy to the viewer surprised to like the show (similar to the Rainbow Dash example below), where she goes from "What am I doing here, this is stupid, it's not my kind of thing" to "These ponies are awesome."
Source: Audience Surrogate - Similar to the "bisexual" example on the main page for this trope, a mid-1970s X-Men comic describes a space crew with both male and female members as being "inter-sexual", by analogy with "interracial".
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Example and Analogy. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/analogy/example
Analogy & Example. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/analogy/example>.
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