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akin

[uh-kin] / əˈkɪn /


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Start plotting your Roth conversions in a manner akin to a Shakespearean conspiracist.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

It's a situation akin to removing the "sickest patients" from hospitals and placing them in backstreet clinics, according to Anders Bach-Mortensen, an associate professor of social care at Roskilde University.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

It is further insulting to gestational carriers, genetic donors, and intended parents to suggest that the mutual creation of a child is somehow akin to the bondage of chattel slavery.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

In other words, low-income families would have more choices akin to what wealthier families already enjoy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Or like a mule had et something bad and was ailing and leaking sickness, but it was kind of akin to that.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis




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