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When used well, figures of speech provide vivid imagery, which helps you as a leader cut through the clutter to get individuals’ attention. —Liz Guthridge, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024 Each puzzle showcases her particular gift for playing on figures of speech with a specificity that’s both dad jokey and incredibly smart. —Sam Corbin, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025 How did this figure of speech become a pejorative for elitist artistic and/or intellectual seclusion—something to be gotten out of or pulled down for the good of the cause, the community, or, more recently, the all-encompassing market? —Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Jan. 2025 These tools, called figures of speech, are valuable for evoking emotions, explaining important concepts and improving our relationships with others. —Liz Guthridge, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024 The internet didn’t exist, the tweet and blog post were not yet known as forms or figures of speech. —Harper’s Magazine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024 Amplifying with Hyperbole Ever used a figure of speech to emphasize a point? —Sherzod Odilov, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024 This is not a _figure of speech_—literally in three days. —Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024 In baseball parlance, that phrase is typically a figure of speech. —Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024