analogy

In a sentence

Six example sentences with analogy, each labelled with its topic.

• Comparing the mind to a city led him to argue by analogy that each district must answer to a central council.

  Philosophy

• The essay draws an analogy between editing a novel and pruning fruit trees, then follows it for twelve pages.

  Literature

• Investors accepted the analogy with early streaming services, reasoning that a business winning cities one by one behaves similarly.

  Startups

• The court reasoned by analogy, holding that a rented locker resembles a rented flat closely enough to carry the same privacy rights.

  Law

• By analogy with earlier icy moons, the team inferred that the new one also hides an ocean beneath its crust.

  Science

• The analogy with the 1970s led forecasters to expect wage rises to follow the oil shock within a year.

  Economics

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains analogy. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• justify
• evaluate
• noble
• odd
• conflicting
• detecting
• cooperation
• simulated
• fringe
• suspend
• classics
• analyst