Analogies are a limited tool, but a physical-world analogy might be shutting down Central Park because crime occurs there – or perhaps more provocatively, destroying the universe because it contains evil.

Source: https://comicbook.com/irl/news/controversial-anonymous-chat-site-omegle-shuts-down-abruptly/

A simple analogy helps to drive this point home: you can read as many books on swimming as you like, listen to endless lectures on the subject, but unless you get in the water and actually try it out, you’re not going to learn how to swim.

Source: https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/silent-meditation-6054824-Apr2023/

A TikToker has revealed a motivational analogy that helps her get through hard times - and others are being inspired to implement it into their own lives.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12796469/influencer-reveals-tiktok-arrow-analogy.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Besides using the analogy of a drunk taken to sobering up in the worst of ways, I could've also said I've forsaken Coke for Diet Coke, or two scoops of ice cream for one.

Source: https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/twitters-rebrand-to-x-cant-hide-how-few-quality-voices-are-left-on-the-site/Content?oid=20280195

Cowen then proceeded to offer an analogy between the eviction ban and sweets, a decision which has seen the TD face widespread criticism online for what many observers viewed as downplaying a serious issue which impacts much of society.

Source: https://www.joe.ie/news/barry-cowen-eviction-ban-771448

Emmer offered a more specific hockey analogy.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/hockey-coach-experience-helps-house-majority-whip-tom-emmer-in-new-leadership-role/article_e384a0fc-3fc2-5d92-8365-d7eb4c4d4202.html

Former Rep Adam Kinzinger has a brief analogy to why the House has to keep having votes to name a speaker.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-house-vote-tally-latest-b2256353.html

If Everton are the proverbial patient in Sorensen's pithy analogy, then the hard-fought Merseyside derby win that followed their League Cup defeat did, at least, help revive them.

Source: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/everton-women-wsl-january-transfers-28335606

If one finds a beautiful flower, never pluck it and analyse it under a microscope, feels actor Kay Kay Menon, who draws the analogy for late actor Irrfan Khan’s son Babil.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/kay-kay-menon-says-he-found-some-magic-in-babil-that-he-also-saw-in-irrfan-khan-9028998/

In analogy to that the soundtrack is based on archive recordings of early 20th century machinery, on top of which play analog synthesizers and drums.

Source: https://boingboing.net/2023/08/04/fritz-langs-classic-sci-fi-film-metropolis-gets-a-new-electronic-soundtrack.html

In these cases, the old analogy, “the early bird gets the worm” couldn’t be truer.

Source: https://radioink.com/2023/09/18/rick-fink-for-sales-tis-the-season/

“It’s a very apt analogy because an earthquake is not going to give you a lot of warnings,” Tang, 42, said.

Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/05/30/taiwan-rushes-to-prevent-china-from-cutting-internet-phones/

Let me illustrate how that works with an analogy.

Source: https://technology.inquirer.net/123500/unleashing-chatgpt-your-ultimate-guide-to-ai-powered-conversations

LOLtron acknowledges Jude Terror's droid-charging station analogy, it computes as 67.9% amusing.

Source: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/star-wars-dark-droids-3-preview-darth-vader-vs-chatgpt/

Mervin Jebaraj, economist with the University of Arkansas Walton College of Business, offers a gymnastics analogy for the Federal Reserve Bank’s handling of the tumultuous economy.

Source: https://talkbusiness.net/2023/12/ua-economist-sees-soft-landing-for-economy-as-a-strong-possibility/

“ Orcas (and other dolphin species) elsewhere have been known to develop cultural ‘fads’ (novel behaviour that briefly persists and expands within a population—an analogy might be fashion trends in people), such as carrying dead fish on their heads.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/orca-whale-attacks-boats-mediterranean-b2399817.html

Ryunah Kang ’26 offered thoughtful and well-researched criticism of the ways society and the government exercise control over the female body, using the analogy of a building to illustrate each point.

Source: https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2023/04/20/semester-in-review-2/

“So, so where that analogy breaks down is no one has given Iran a dollar here.

Source: https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/12/ap-reporter-matt-lee-biden-spox-iran-money-transfer/

That analogy, far from being merely a hint of Affleck and Damon’s personal investment in the story of “Air,” is at the core of Affleck’s direction.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/air-reviewed-its-fun-to-spend-time-with-these-people-but-we-dont-know-much-about-them

The best analogy is someone who thinks the produce is better in a small neighborhood grocery store than in a big box store, but both stores purchase their produce from the same farms.

Source: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3691248/sovereign-clouds-are-becoming-a-big-deal-again.html