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liken

[lahy-kuhn] / ˈlaɪ kən /


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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

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

From MarketWatch May 25, 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

Many would later liken the pairing of Morrow and Halliday to that of Jobs and Wozniak or Lennon and McCartney.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

It is no bigger than a fingertip, but has comically large antennae - which Hughes likens to "big floppy ears".

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Chandra Scott, executive director of Alabama Possible, which oversees the state’s direct-admission program, likens the sign-up form for students to a social-media profile: something they can do “in their sleep.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Bandopadhyay likens a low-mass star to a fluffy meringue.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

Also in 2023, engineering firm Hermann Ultraschall bought the rights to develop a patented ultrasonic paper sealing technology, a process which it likens to welding.

From BBC Jul. 27, 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

It was a response to a remark by India's Chief Justice Surya Kant, who had likened jobless youngsters to cockroaches.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Senate whose winning primary campaign former New York Times columnist Charles Blow likened to Obama’s 2008 faceoff against Hillary Clinton.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

Macnab likened this climate case to the successful series of lawsuits against big tobacco companies in the 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

Robert Springall, former assistant vice president for enrollment at Penn State and now a consultant with WittKieffer, an executive search firm, likened the challenge to Sisyphus pushing the rock up the hill.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

At the Academy, prison had been likened to a village—a self- contained world with its own school, workshops, hospital, and so forth.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

“I’m not here because of some great thing I did, I’m here because God delivered me,” Paxton said, likening himself to other “not particularly perfect” biblical figures like Peter, Paul and David.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

He said the addiction started to severely impact his mental health, likening it to carrying around a "huge ball of shame".

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

The likening the visage of the owl to the dirty face of an old abbess is capital, and the likening the cry to the noise of the Rhugylgroen is anything but unfortunate. 

From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by George Henry Borrow




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