How to Use analogize in a Sentence

analogize

verb
  • Not so long ago, that analogizing was the work of shamans, imams, and ministers.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • So is there enough previous case law for courts to analogize to this situation?
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Ditto their love for each other and their city, analogized to an Antarctica that’s breaking apart and must be put back together.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Physically, these riders take a beating perhaps best analogized by football and mixed martial arts.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 11 Feb. 2018
  • McFee analogizes it to people from different countries or continents.
    — Michael Olinger, The Seattle Times, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Lloyd can explain it only by analogizing anti-racist pedagogy to brainwashing.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
  • Staking is often analogized to depositing (and locking-in) your funds in a bank account, in which the bank then uses and pays you interest in return.
    — Timothy M. Todd, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Our tendency to analogize senators to jurors, and the Senate to a court, is not accidental.
    — Adam White, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
  • If the population could be analogized to a single human body, then its immune system would rely on a concert of action and purpose between each cell.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Indeed the music, with its banging, techno-style beats looped against plangent piano, analogizes Jamal’s predicament rather perfectly.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Nonetheless, analogizing energy to digital tech remains a go-to for policymakers and pundits.
    — Mark P. Mills, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Microfluidics is often analogized to microelectronics, which uses transistors to amplify or switch an electronic signal.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Some have analogized ultralights to other planes as motorcycles are to cars, which begins to explain the stigma some pilots have seen applied to the recreational act of flying them, particularly when launched from airports.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 14 Dec. 2025
  • In Aspen, Reich analogized this to academic tenure—granting freedom to work on unpopular subjects or long-term projects without the demand for immediate results.
    — Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 28 June 2017
  • In Noises Off, the director analogizes himself to a deity, albeit one in need of Valium and prone to catastrophically inept womanizing.
    — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • But by hyperbolically analogizing, Mishra seems to be intentionally salting Jewish wounds.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2025
  • This exceptional decision would have the effect of robbing states of jurisdiction not only over climate cases, but also over a range of other tort and products liability cases that future defendants would analogize to these suits.
    — David A. Dana, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2024
  • To analogize to calculus, if human reasoning is a Riemann sum, machine learning may be the integral that results as the Riemann calculation approaches infinity.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2019
  • But pundits in awe of Silicon Valley’s prowess analogize today’s green energy companies to the disruption of landline phone businesses after the advent of cell phones or the disruption of taxis by Uber.
    — Mark Mills, Fortune, 5 June 2017
  • In 2014, a district court held that Baidu’s search engine results were in fact protected by the First Amendment, citing Volokh’s reasoning and analogizing the search engine to a newspaper.
    — Helen Norton, Slate Magazine, 22 Mar. 2017
  • After matter-of-factly trashing Lord Varys, analogizing him to a friend who can't stop talking behind others' backs, Varys actually walks into the room and happily munches on popcorn for the rest of the episode, much to Jones' delight.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 10 Aug. 2017

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