liken
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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
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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
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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
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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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