analogous
/əˈnæl.ə.ɡəs/ adjective C1- Having analogy, the status of an analogue; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or similar proportion (often followed by "to".)
- Functionally similar, but arising through convergent evolution rather than being homologous.
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Students of criminology will remember the analogous incidents in Godno, in Little Russia, in the year ’66, and of course there are the Anderson murders in North Carolina, but this case possesses some features which are entirely its own.
She had spent decades wrestling with such linguistic puzzles, her career defined by the quiet triumph of finding the perfect analogous idiom.
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