be akin
Example Sentences
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Keeping Pages in center field would in no way be akin to keeping, say, Devon White or Willie Davis in center field.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025
Discovering this new feature would be akin to finding a way that blood can circulate when the heart stops pumping.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 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
He thinks, like many another philosopher of feeling, that since his is a part of the sum of experience, the whole of experience should be akin to his.
From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by Santayana, George
