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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a close analogy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two things that are similar in some way, often to clarify a point or illustrate an idea.
Example: "The relationship between the sun and the earth can be described as a close analogy to the relationship between a parent and a child."
Alternatives: "a strong comparison" or "a tight resemblance".
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There is a close analogy.
For example, the charitable trust of Anglo-American law has a close analogy in the civil-law "foundation" (French fondation, German Stiftung).
A close analogy is a blog ping server (see our overview here).
Ferrite plating bears a close analogy to the bacterial Fe3O4 (magnetosome) synthesis.
Now of course this might be an impossible device, but it would have to be as described to be a close analogy to the foreknowledge scenario.
While Pandora is a close analogy for what Laugh.ly is doing, the business itself is different in terms of how artists' rights are handled.
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In fact, a closer analogy would be Howard Dean's bid for the Democratic nomination in 2004.
But a closer analogy may be early struggles over the burgeoning of capitalism in the 19th century.
Even so, a closer analogy is probably with the pre-revolutionary period, when groups of powerful boyars sort of barons competed for the tsar's ear and favour.
Their graphic qualities can suggest Aaron Siskind's photographs of graffiti, but their robustness makes the work of Cy Twombly a closer analogy.
A closer analogy might be to Herbert von Karajan, when, as music director of the Berlin Philharmonic and artistic director of the Salzburg Festival in Austria in the waning decades of the last century, he was known as Generalmusikdirektor of Europe.
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