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An example of metphor in popular science witing:
"Not all stars are the same – there's a whole zoo of them, determined by their mass and the stage they're at in their life cycle."
Andrew May
May, A. (2019) Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe
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Many examples of science metaphors are listed in 'Creative comparisons: Making science familiar through language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.