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as in mythological
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Recent Examples of allegorical
While design-minded sleuths can pick out these details and assign allegorical meaning to them, there are other subtle hints throughout the show as well.
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Alison McDermott, Architectural Digest, 19 Feb. 2026
The opening scene, which hints at the allegorical nature of the story (written by Çatak, Ayda Meryem Çatak and Enis Köstepen), features respected theater actress Derya (Özgü Namal) on stage before a packed audience.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
Maybe this skin-crawler is a creepy, allegorical drama about delusional paranoia.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2026
In Baraka’s play, Clay and Lula serve as allegorical representations of Black assimilation and white supremacy, respectively.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Jan. 2026
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Alison McDermott, Architectural Digest, 19 Feb. 2026
The opening scene, which hints at the allegorical nature of the story (written by Çatak, Ayda Meryem Çatak and Enis Köstepen), features respected theater actress Derya (Özgü Namal) on stage before a packed audience.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
Maybe this skin-crawler is a creepy, allegorical drama about delusional paranoia.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2026
In Baraka’s play, Clay and Lula serve as allegorical representations of Black assimilation and white supremacy, respectively.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allegorical
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The Royal Maundy Service sees the sovereign distribute Maundy money, or special coins, to local pensioners (often retirees) in a service symbolic of Jesus washing the Apostles' feet at the last supper.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
2 Apr. 2026
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The invitation also ties directly to America 250 celebrations, with congressional leaders highlighting the symbolic weight of the moment.—
Rena Rowe,
The Washington Examiner,
1 Apr. 2026
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Meis moves from the Baroque virtuosity of Rubens’s study of a drunken mythological figure, through the jagged modernist puzzle of Marc’s allegorical animals, to Mitchell’s painterly abstractions and their flickering landscape allusions.—
Jed Perl,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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The same federal arts project sculptor who crafted the bust of Leif Erickson, Nina Saemundsson, gave us the MacArthur Park statue of Prometheus, the mythological Greek figure who stole the fire of knowledge from the gods to give to humanity.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2026
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Anderson is a figurative painter in the great tradition of Bacon, Freud and Auerbach.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
3 Apr. 2026
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The following list presents the ten tallest figurative freestanding statues in the world according to their heights, excluding base-structure height and topographical elevation.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 Apr. 2026
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Engendered by the ubiquity of stable and robust WiFi and the incredible power of the smartphone’s system-on-a-chip design, the smart everything era demonstrates the full transfer of the smartness imaginary.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Apr. 2026
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Following Christopher Columbus’ first voyage, the rulers of Portugal and Spain, by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), partitioned the non-Christian world between them by an imaginary line in the Atlantic, 370 leagues (about 1,300 miles) west of the Cape Verde Islands.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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The apparent split between Rubio and Vance on the Iran war is emblematic of the divide starting to cleave within the Republican Party.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Fractures are emerging in the GOP The apparent split between Rubio and Vance on the Iran war is emblematic of the divide starting to cleave within the Republican Party.—
Michelle L. Price,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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Méliès would take the artform in a more self-consciously fanciful direction – into science fiction and fantasy.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
1 Apr. 2026
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April Fools' Day was a thing back then, too — and of course, other fanciful stories that might have gotten Chicagoans riled up have turned up since.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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In the United States, golden statuary is rare and usually metaphoric — the Oregon Pioneer, the Golden Driller, the Spirit of Communication.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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Firms acted like the metaphorical kid in a candy store with talent, grabbing every shiny new candidate that crossed their applicant tracking system, with some, like Amazon, even doubling their headcount between 2019 and 2021.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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The number distilled the North Beach revue (which closed New Year’s Eve 2019) famous for its oversized figural hats, musical parodies and fairy-tale characters into 11.5 minutes.—
Culture Critic,
San Francisco Chronicle,
13 Mar. 2026
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The holders come in a set of two, adorned with figural bunnies.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Allegorical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allegorical. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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