Although the use of the crowdsourcing metaphor may be new as it applies to a criminal investigation, it is almost certain we will see more of this in the future.

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Even the more recent New Century Evangelion, which he sees primarily as a metaphor for teenage confusion, is set in a world devastated by attacks from a mysterious alien force.

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Maybe I have spent too much time in post- linguistic turn academia, but the importance of language in general, and definition and metaphor more specifically, is not exactly a new or particularly controversial position.

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To stay with the metaphor, we can compute an optimal route through New York (the creation of a test), we can send a robot to drive the route (test execution) and check if the route conforms to the map (evaluate the outcome).

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Microsoft is already taking a bit of a gamble with the new user interface that drives Windows 8, although the comfortable desktop metaphor is available as a safety net.

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The contrast between the staid exteriors and the vibrant interiors of homes is a metaphor for the city, says Val Nehez, an interior designer who works both out of Philadelphia and New York.

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