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Kevin Bau, a computer science teacher at BB&N who serves as team adviser, likens Katie to a “field general” and said she transformed the RoboKnights.

Zachary Lippman, a professor of genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, likens the situation to an arms race—only this time around we are competing against ourselves.

He likened it to the risks of flying, in which being in a well-ventilated airplane with a mask on doesn’t seem to be a high-risk activity — but sitting around a crowded airport is.

Jenkins likened the early DHS relationship with states then as akin to exchanging business cards in the middle of a crisis when the two sides had no reason to trust each other.

Google likened its agreements to be a default search engine with companies like Apple to Coca-Cola buying prime shelf space at grocery store checkout counters.

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McCaslin likened the energy at ARNN to that of a startup, with the handsome salaries to match.

Sousa likened their effort to that of the one to draft Barry Goldwater, in 1964.

For doing so, I was likened in comments to Josef Mengele, a comparison that warmed the cockles of my gay, half-Jewish heart.

In explaining him, some Yezidis likened him to Lucifer, whom the main Abrahamic traditions regard as the devil.

Kill Rock Stars founder Slim Moon likened this to Simon and Garfunkel.

He likened the celebrated Theophile to a calf, because Theophile's family name was Viaud, something resembling veau (a calf).

The kingdom of Heaven is likened unto a man who sowed good seed in his field.

The missionaries likened them to “herds of swine, who neither worshipped the true and only God, nor adored false deities.”

Nearly two thousand years ago a Roman historian likened the life of his country to the life of man.

Other fungi were of dazzling whiteness, which Lejoillie likened to a casket of pearls, supported by an azure stalk.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to likened, such as: relate, equate, correlate, resemble, assimilate, and equal.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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