liken

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With the Southern flavor you bring to comedy, I kind of liken it to hip-hop, when it comes to the regional styles of different comics.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

This "is what replacing looks like," added Polanski, a charismatic figurehead some liken to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and who only took charge of the Greens last September.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

Experts and activists liken it to searching for a snowball in a blizzard.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026

I liken them to upside-down waterfalls, accelerating the descent until they hit rocks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

I do not now, and I did not then, liken myself to Paul.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey