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liken

[lahy-kuhn] / ˈlaɪ kən /


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Some visitors liken the landscape to the Scottish highlands, despite its tropical climate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Some researchers liken the mind to a snow globe: the drugs temporarily disrupt established thought patterns, allowing thoughts and feelings to settle differently and providing new perspectives on past experiences.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

While it would be terrific to liken her fate to that of Deborah Vance on “Hacks,” at least Jean Smart’s diva got a Vegas rebirth.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

Analysts are largely bullish on both companies and liken picking which one they prefer to choosing a favorite child.

From MarketWatch ● May 25, 2026

Other commentators liken the prison label to “the mark of Cain” and characterize the perpetual nature of the sanction as “internal exile.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Kyle Cubr, the Music Box’s senior operations manager and assistant general manager, likens the excitement to mischief.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Dangerfield likens the four to musical superheroes from a Marvel series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Researchers hope the databases created using the digitised text -- which he likens to a kind of "huge Facebook of the past" -- could help bring to light links between people, places and ideas.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Our call of the day comes from the investor known as the bond king, Jeffrey Gundlach, who likens stock markets to a hollow tree that’s about to break.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

He likens himself to “a simple worshipper of the eternal Buddha,” he tells both Theo and Gauguin.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

Khalil's ordeal also exposed him to conditions in a Louisiana jail he likened to torture, describing constant fluorescent light, cold, and poor food.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

The filmmaker likened “You Can See Everything” to an observational vérité movie, one of the oldest forms of documentary filmmaking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Lempert likened the options in the new plan to the array of options one encounters when they walk the aisles of a supermarket — even if their shopping list contains only a few items.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

A top chipmaker’s chief executive likened some AI investors’ behavior to gambling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

I likened the top sixteen fencers in the world to superheroes, insanely fast, mesmerizing to watch, and lucky enough to not even have to fence the first day of World Cup competition.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel says the biotech’s competitive edge stems from its mRNA platform, likening it to software in Big Tech.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Obama, of course, isn’t a ghost, and he has been talking up some of the same candidates others are likening to him.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

But the OECD's report said countries were allowing the rapid spread of AI without evidence of its impact, likening it to rolling out an untested vaccine on children.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Bessent dubbed the initiative Economic D-Day, likening the effort to the World War II campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Concerning these matters, I take it, God teaches us by likening them to such things as we know that shall give the best conceit of them to our minds.

From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt


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