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liken

[lahy-kuhn] / ˈlaɪ kən /


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“I would liken the trading and modeling to the striker, or the guy who kicks the ball in the goal at the end of the play,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 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

Those who know Jaissle best even liken the difference between his on and off the field persona to Jekyll and Hyde.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

“I liken Harrenhal to the White Lotus of Westeros,” Mitchell says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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

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

Hal likens Soldiers & Sailors to Dante’s Inferno, a place where souls are damned to eternally relive their most terrible experiences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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

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

In an analysis of the incident, computer scientist Cal Newport likened OpenAI’s training approach to strapping a Weedwacker to your dog to do yard work.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

He likened conventional TMS to covering a leak with a tarp to manage its effects.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Kumuls stalwart Lachlan Lam - forced to miss this World Cup because he needs wrist surgery - likened the atmosphere to "a proper scream".

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

A great radioactive cloud was deposited on the tiny atoll of Rongalap, 150 kilometers away, where the inhabitants likened the explosion to the Sun rising in the West.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Tech firms took a hammering on Tuesday amid concerns about China's progress in developing AI chips and following comments by Broadcom's boss likening the AI buying frenzy to gambling.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Some may take issue with likening Oprah Winfrey to J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

“These promises are extremely, exquisitely hard to enforce,” said Alvaro Bedoya, an antitrust lawyer who served on the Federal Trade Commission during the Biden administration, likening Paramount’s concessions to a pinkie promise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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

After James ascended the throne of England he meted out ample measure to his countrymen, likening himself to Joseph, who, being raised to power, forgot not his brethren.

From The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts by Charles S. Bentley


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