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  1. Analogies

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of analogies in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of analogies in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of analogies in a Sentence

  1. Jonathan Greenblatt:

    This includes making outlandish and offensive analogies suggesting that somehow Anthony Fauci is akin to Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, known for Anthony Fauci gruesome medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners.

  2. Professor Edsger Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984:

    The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.

  3. Debra Burlingame:

    It’s unfortunate because we’re coming up in the 20th anniversary, there are a lot of young people who have no living memory of 9/11 … When you have all these comparisons and analogies, which are inflated and ridiculous, it minimizes what actually happened, and that’s what’s happening here. It’s a deliberate ploy.

  4. Matt Lane:

    We challenged ourselves to try to find analogies, ideas that work in other industries to bring into our model.

  5. Wasserman Schultz:

    Cavalier analogies to the Holocaust are unacceptable. Mike Huckabee must apologize to the Jewish community and to the American people for this grossly irresponsible statement.

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