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metaphoric

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Adjective

1. metaphorical

2. figurative, nonliteral

Usage
Waterways, Real and Metaphoric Ride - Portland.gov
Framing the mind: media, metaphors, and mindfulness - Frontiers
Hitting the word count - The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
The Power of Metaphors When Introducing Change Initiatives - Harvard Business Review
Metaphor as a springboard to scientific communication: a large-scale study of the use of lexical metaphors across disciplines - Nature
Meet the metaphoric mayor of Teaneck - The Jewish Standard
Metaphor in UX Design - Jakob Nielsen on UX
10 mental health metaphors (and what they tell us about how we’re feeling) - Happiful Magazine
Embodied metaphors in Friedrich Schiller's “Die Bürgschaft”: a cognitive-linguistic analysis - Frontiers
Metaphors in art therapy - La Trobe University
“They are battling a different war”: A corpus-based comparative study on - Nature
The Body Made Metaphoric: Heather Christle on Losing a Rib and Writing a Memoir - Literary Hub
“I am like a camel struggling in the desert”: understanding Chinese foreign language teachers’ perceived identities through metaphors - Frontiers
Figurative Archive: an open dataset and web-based application for the study of metaphor | Scientific Data - Nature
Verbal creativity in autism: comprehension and generation of metaphoric language in high-functioning autism spectrum disorder and typical development - Frontiers
Framing medical encounters through metaphor: a cognitive and cultural account of Chinese doctor–patient discourse - Nature
Is explaining more like showing or more like building?—Agency in metaphors of explaining - Frontiers
Landslide metaphor: a cross-linguistic examination - Nature
Time-Course of Motor Involvement in Literal and Metaphoric Action Sentence Processing: A TMS Study - Frontiers
Large language models prompt engineering as a method for embodied cognitive linguistic representation: a case study of political metaphors in Trump’s discourse - Frontiers
Revisiting Chandigarh: A Vitalised Metaphoric Urban Forest - ArchitectureLive!
POETRY: A METAPHORIC WEALTH - Dawn
The ability to interpret metaphors is fully developed by the age of 6 - campusa-magazine - EHU
The Comprehension of Familiar and Novel Metaphoric Meanings in Schizophrenia: A Pilot Study - Frontiers
When to use a metaphor: metaphors in dialogical explanations with addressees of different expertise - Frontiers
Do You Torture Your Metaphors? The Problem of Self-Conscious Writing - Jane Friedman
Hey Siri, an ancient algorithm may help you grasp metaphors - University of California, Berkeley
For this neglected philosopher, metaphors make life an adventure - Psyche
Enacting Metaphors in Systemic Collaborative Therapy - Frontiers
Suppression of literal meaning in single and extended metaphors - Frontiers
Like a moth to a flame, we’re drawn to metaphors to explain ourselves - The Guardian
From “A Spoonful of Sugar” to Operation Warp Speed: COVID-19 Vaccines and Their Metaphors - Petrie-Flom Center
EFL learners’ metaphorical insights into multi-modal writing intervention - Nature
Metaphor interpretation in Jordanian Arabic, Emirati Arabic and Classical Arabic: artificial intelligence vs. humans - Nature
Transforming Mental Health Care with Cultural Narratives and Metaphors - Mad In America
Green and black: the implicit color metaphor of environmental concepts and its impact on pro-environmental behavior - Nature
Why I Refuse to Talk About Cancer as a ‘War,’ ‘Fight,’ or ‘Battle’ - SELF Magazine
How the Brain Finds Meaning in Metaphor - Association of American Universities (AAU)
In new cognitive research, people’s eyes reveal that clichés are underrated - Princeton University
Normed dataset for novel metaphors, novel similes, literal and anomalous sentences in Chinese - Frontiers
The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer - Mad In America
Cognitive perspective of metaphors in Chinese Hua'er folksongs - Frontiers
The Layered Metaphors of Broken Windows - hyperallergic.com
“I Am Like a Lost Child”: L2 Writers' Linguistic Metaphors as a Window Into Their Writer Identity - Frontiers
Metaphor in Sign Languages - Frontiers
Metaphors are Embodied, and so are Their Literal Counterparts - Frontiers
Children's metaphoric productions and preferences - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
How metaphors shape women’s lives - BBC
Metaphors and medically unexplained symptoms - The Lancet
Birds’ Nests, Spider Webs, and the Metaphors They Inspire - Fordham Now
Hemispheric Processing of Chinese Scientific Metaphors: Evidence via Hemifield Presentation - Frontiers
Metaphors for the future - Global Sisters Report
ATC’s “The Welkin” – Filled with Metaphoric Wonderment in its Compelling Wildness - front mezz junkies
What Happens When a Metaphor Becomes Real? - Public Books
Why AI Design Needs Metaphors to Bridge the Gap With Consumers - ADWEEK
Prime effects in metaphor comprehension: comparing congruent and opposite schematic primes - Frontiers
Jennifer Grotz: "When Metaphor Gets Literal" - The Yale Review
With Apologies to Susan Sontag, We're Going to Need Metaphor to Get Through This Global Illness - Literary Hub
"The Snake": What Trump's Use of Metaphors Reveals - PBS
Vince Staples’ Long Beach Transforms Into A Metaphoric Apocalypse (Video) - Ambrosia For Heads
Metaphors of Big Data - vox.com
‘Zootopia’ Acting Analysis: An Anthropomorphic And Metaphoric Muddle - Cartoon Brew
Metaphors and Malignancy in Senator McCain’s Cancer Diagnosis - Nursing Clio
To grasp metaphors, our brains get touchy-feely - futurity.org
Exploring Monsters as Metaphors in Horror Movies - Rutgers University
How the Brain Finds Meaning in Metaphor - University of Arizona News
That kid is a grasshopper! Metaphor development from 3 to 9 years of age - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
A 12-Foot Statue Without a Pedestal, Metaphoric or Otherwise (Published 2023) - The New York Times
Why do other people form imaginary shapes in our minds? - Aeon
ATC’s “The Welkin” – Filled with Metaphoric Wonderment in its Compelling Wildness - Times Square Chronicles
Life is different for people who think in metaphors - British Psychological Society
Turning Francis Ford Coppola’s Metaphoric Vision of ‘Megalopolis’ Into New Rome and the Titular Utopia - IMDb
Conventionality and context jointly modulate the effect of inhibitory control on L2 metaphor comprehension - Nature
Learning to comprehend and explain spatial metaphors for time in Chinese - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
THE WOMAN IN THE YARD Review: Metaphors Are Exactly What They Seem to Be - ScreenAnarchy
The Overnight Retention of Novel Metaphors Associates With Slow Oscillation–Spindle Coupling but Not With Respiratory Phase at Encoding - Frontiers
Metaphors of War in Effective and Ineffective Coping of Medical Directors of COVID-19 Wards in Public Hospitals - Frontiers
Shadows and Other Non-Metaphorical Analogies by Charles Gaines - Pomona College
Reasoning COVID-19: the use of spatial metaphor in times of a crisis - Nature
Cross-linguistic automated detection of metaphors for poverty andcancer - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Review: ‘God of Carnage’ Puts Parents in a Metaphoric Bull Ring (Published 2016) - The New York Times
Novel Metaphors Comprehension in a Child with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Study on Assessment and Treatment - Frontiers
Why Wartime Metaphors Fail Us - Sojourners
Metaphors escape the sensory world and extend our thoughts to the intangible. - Psychology Today
Review: Matteo Garrone’s Dogman Lives and Dies by Metaphoric Exaggeration - Slant Magazine
Conceptual Metaphors for Designing Smart Environments: Device, Robot, and Friend - Frontiers
Jesus Is an Economic Engine: Dismantling the Metaphoric Mechanization of Everything - Truthout
Metaphor comprehension in the acquisition of Arabic - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Elaborating time in space: the structure and function of space–motion metaphors of time - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Gupta ’25: It’s time we rethink sexual metaphors to fit modern dating - The Brown Daily Herald
Like a Defense of Simile - The Smart Set
The Trouble With Medicine's Metaphors - The Atlantic
COGMED: a database for Chinese olfactory and gustatory metaphor - Nature
The words that help us understand the world - BBC
The roots of metaphor: the essence of thought - Frontiers
Xi's metaphoric vision on APEC family - China Daily
‘Vaccine as a cheat sheet ’: a metaphor gone awry on Facebook - Frontiers
Metaphoric City - Open Magazine
Factors Influencing Right Hemisphere Engagement During Metaphor Comprehension - Frontiers
Decoding brain activities of literary metaphor comprehension: An event-related potential and EEG spectral analysis - Frontiers
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'metaphoric'
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Misspellings - Typos
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Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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