But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.
Ulrich Beck
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.
Thomas Harrison
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.
Robert Smithson
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.
John Searle
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