be akin
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The deal struck by Rahm is said to be "akin" to what the other eight players agreed last February.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
I wrote that explaining terminal lucidity through an unknown brain capability “would be akin to finding a way that blood can circulate when the heart stops pumping.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Repealing such programs — and potentially undermining the endangerment finding — would be akin to “denying the concept of gravity,” Ortiz said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025
And the novelist Richard Ford once made it clear that questioning Ms. Munro’s mastery over the short story would be akin to doubting the hardness of a diamond or the bouquet of a ripened peach.
From New York Times • May 14, 2024
The love affair of two such immortals might reasonably be expected—was expected—to be akin to the noble romances of poetry.
From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson
