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An example of simile used in popular science writing:
"So long as the radiation that escapes from the surface of a star like this is the sole cause of the collapse nothing very violent can happen. The rotary forces increase too slowly for that. What happens is that the star breaks up, not in one enormous explosion, but through the steady showering off of material, rather like a gigantic catherine wheel."
Fred Hoyle (1960) The Nature of the Universe (Revised ed.)
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