resemble
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The event is being managed by the organizers of the IndyCar championship, the US motorsport whose cars resemble Formula One vehicles but often compete on oval tracks, including at the flagship Indianapolis 500 race.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Closed-end funds are mutual funds that resemble stocks: They issue a fixed number of shares, and these trade on the stock market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
It was later “determined to be a water pistol designed to resemble a firearm,” police said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The bone has short projections extending outward that resemble horns, and it lacks a ventral median groove.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
My mom and I didn't resemble each other at all.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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To meet that launch window, technicians in protective suits test electronics on the spacecraft’s chassis, which resembles a gray metal box with four outstretched arms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Texas Instruments’ Evo has moved to a menu-based interface that resembles that of Casio and NumWorks, according to Choudhury.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Then that truth gets “wrenched through this…assembly line,” until what comes out on the other side barely resembles where it started.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
It resembles the Detroit-style pizza that has grown popular in recent years, he said, and franchisees had to buy special pans to produce it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
After I have been startled a couple of times in the street by the screaming of the tramcars, which resembles the shriek of a shell coming straight for one, somebody taps me on the shoulder.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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Stokes resembled the kid given the keys to the sweetshop on his first morning as skipper, fielding five slips at one stage against New Zealand.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
As the zebrafish grew older, they developed spinal abnormalities that closely resembled disc disease in people.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
My creation resembled a bulky hamantaschen more than a talisman for a life-changing epiphany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The S&P 500 has recently resembled the way it looked five years ago, when investors started to play it safer, according to Morgan Stanley.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Dressed in drab black, with his mariner cap pulled low and his dark hair framing his lean face, he resembled a bedraggled crow.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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Anything resembling a larger project, he said, had been put on hold.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Another potential scenario, Shpaizman said, is one resembling the storming of the US Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, as they tried to stop certification of his election defeat.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
The new research points toward a different possibility: brain-inspired AI made from artificial units that are themselves computationally deep and powerful, more closely resembling the capabilities of biological neurons.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
The judge later told them he "rejected the contention" that the teenagers had shown "anything resembling remorse".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
On the Earth before life, there may already have been chemical processes resembling respiration and photosyn thesis cycling in the soil, perhaps to be incorporated by life once it arose.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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