be akin
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States’ role here should be akin to their supervision of any group soliciting charitable donations, said Leslie Hiner, vice president of legal affairs at EdChoice, which backs the tax credit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
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
If they can, then it may well be akin to the teacher grabbing the spoiled kid before he’s able to re-enter the classroom and stomp the Lego village into garbage.
From Salon • Aug. 15, 2024
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 first one below would seem to be akin to the various cabala of the German Pietists of Pennsylvania.
From A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs by Combs, Josiah Henry
