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Example Sentences

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These images feel like little worlds pressed up against the surface of each painting, akin to the ubiquitous screens — phones, TVs, computers — that routinely flatten our reality.

From Los Angeles Times

For many economists, talk of a soft landing seems akin to celebrating green shoots in the garden when below-freezing weather could return any day.

From MarketWatch

"For some people this will be a loss akin to losing a pet or a friend. It's normal to grieve, it's normal to feel loss - it's very human."

From BBC

Invariably these wacky scenarios will be more amusing to longtime fans, for whom a frantic climax akin to the lightning-meets-DeLorean ending of “Back to the Future” will play like nostalgia for nostalgia.

From Los Angeles Times

Beating England has not been akin to climbing Everest.

From BBC