How to pronounce “metaphorically” in English

metaphorically and literally by oppression, poverty, racism-- all of these things.

metaphorically speaking, because it's not going to happen, that we'll ever get powerful enough that we have to worry about this-- but that's a minority.

metaphorically that unknown is sort of a dark and scary place to people, or at least it's foggy.

Metaphorically, as a coach of others-- even when working with clientele in sales and services-- I, as a change-agent, need to recognize the pain

And metaphorically speaking, I think it's the leadership we need.

So metaphorically, Facebook and Amazon are essentially leaning their data trackers into our virtual apps.

Not metaphorically.

He metaphorically stuck his hand under my chin and put me up against the wall and said, you need to grow up,

So metaphorically, I think that's a good picture of our time.

So metaphorically speaking, what I'm asking everyone to think about is on a regular basis, listen to the tweet from your heartbeat.

And metaphorically, the challenge is are you willing and able to move the pen from one hand to the other?

it metaphorically.

think metaphorically and literally you just move off the world that you know into a world that you don't know that

And I'm metaphorically speaking because that was the best thing that happened to me because that was god taking that away from me because something else was

but I mean it metaphorically-- and the picket fence around our house doesn't hold our kids in.

and what that means metaphorically-- that we do carry the effects of what happened to our ancestors and our cultural companions,

He sort of essentially metaphorically patted me on the head and said, that's a really nice American concept that you're bringing to the UK.

literally or metaphorically?

It might work metaphorically, but the enthusiasts never seem to be speaking metaphorically.

So sort of metaphorically, if you're walking around, suddenly gravity moves off by 30 degrees.

It's not metaphorically fantastic.

and I saw metaphorically in in reality and I saw the google.org FKS folks Larry

I'm not using see metaphorically, to mean like I had thoughts about what it could mean.

And I started to look at hope metaphorically, like the sun, because when there's no sun, nothing grows.

And I don't mean we're metaphorically like this frog.

I'm describing this a bit metaphorically, I think it's clear in this case.

But you can think of it metaphorically and know that when you are mental flossing, you can have the same effect.

And it's also sort of like metaphorically an adventure, an expedition into a territory that people haven't been in before.

Because they might be thinking we are speaking metaphorically.

So metaphorically speaking, think about that with your network.

And I don't mean that at all metaphorically.

a is a kind of you know again speaking metaphorically a sickness of time travel and I loved uh William Gibson's

even if they didn't understand the references they metaphorically it worked perfectly for them and then after that

You can see how it then would be metaphorically extended to a body part that was maybe shaped similarly.

culture, and metaphorically-- like I have on the slide here-- try to put up a coat of paint on a dilapidated, run-down

Well, I know that metaphorically a half-full, full-half empty glass is a sign of something.

They might be OK-- I'm giving them agency metaphorically-- they might be OK with an herbivore

with technology, metaphorically, I play cupid and my arrow is imagery.

And so I've described Apple not only metaphorically as the ultimate need-to-know culture but literally

1968, and metaphorically, you walked outside at midnight and looked up at the sky and saw

And that's what going in the balcony, metaphorically speaking, allows you to do, is recalibrate your focus in a way that gives you

And you're there to hold their hand, metaphorically or literally.

Again, when you think about this metaphorically as an expedition to a place people have never been to before into the unknown,

So I said we are, literally and metaphorically, we're on the steps of the US Supreme Court.

You're sitting at table, at least metaphorically, with the biggest expert on the subject of me in the world.

maybe literally, but if not, definitely metaphorically, as a superorganism so that life exists at the microscopic level and the macroscopic level

So I think when she heard that I wanted to be a model, she immediately metaphorically just fainted on the floor.

When Paco speaks of planta sapiens, he's talking metaphorically.

There's the famous the lion shall lay down with the sheep, which is usually understood metaphorically.