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What is the verb for analogy?

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analogize
  1. To express as an analogy.
  2. To treat one thing as analogous to another.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “It consists of wave after wave of manifestos and other declarations which seek to analogize disparate events, from the Watts riots to the war for Algerian independence.”
      “The Superintendent seeks to analogize the Settlement Order and the Settlement Agreement here to the surplus sharing agreement reached in TecSyn.”
      “And I'll analogize it to the case down in Galveston, the Durst case.”
analogise
  1. Alternative spelling of analogize
analogises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of analogise
analogizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of analogize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He then analogizes the situation to the American judicial system in which persons charged with crimes are presumed innocent until proven guilty.”
      “Kleiman believes that the election is not too close to call, so he analogizes it to an event with 90 percent probability.”
      “Norris believes love is a natural tendency of the soul, and analogizes love to motion in The Theory and Regulation of Love.”
analogised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of analogise
analogized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of analogize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Unfortunately, some legal discussions in effect have analogized payment to a piggy bank, where a person's physical money is paid in, possibly mixed, and then extracted.”
      “This case can be directly analogized to the situation where one possesses prescription drugs.”
      “She analogized an agency head to the captain of a naval vessel: even though military regulations put the captain in charge of a ship, it is understood that his superior officer can give him orders.”
analogising
  1. present participle of analogise
analogizing
  1. present participle of analogize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Poetry allows us to examine science in a way that purely scientific discourse cannot by analogizing abstract concepts into concrete forms.”
      “Such a desire is not the same as analogizing the city to the family, of merely wishing that the city were more like a family.”
      “I see no point in analogizing the kind of mobilization we carried out in World War II to the present conflict, which is entirely different.”
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