- present participle of liken.
likening
Example Sentences
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“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
“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
He refers to the phrase in Psalm XIX likening the sun in its course "to a strong man about to run a race," proving that the sun moves.
From The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Dorothy Stimson
