Words similar to metaphorically

Example sentences for: metaphorically

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McCain has since backed away grudgingly from that allegation ("I was speaking metaphorically," he says), but his aides have kept it alive by publicly urging the Bush campaign to make sure its agents aren't spreading the rumors.
According to Mexican and Chicano folklore she metaphorically represents the raped Indian woman that produced the mestizo (mixed Spanish and Indian) race, the Mexican, but she is also considered a double-crosser.
To lip-sync is to move one's lips in synchronization with a prerecorded sound--and, metaphorically, to mouth someone else's sentiments.
Look for value-subtracted to establish itself in metaphorically expansive circumstances.
If Monica must be killed to save the president, she will be killed (metaphorically speaking, of course).