be akin
Example Sentences
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Discovering this new feature would be akin to finding a way that blood can circulate when the heart stops pumping.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
Repealing such programs — and potentially undermining the endangerment finding — would be akin to “denying the concept of gravity,” Ortiz said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025
And the novelist Richard Ford once made it clear that questioning Ms. Munro’s mastery over the short story would be akin to doubting the hardness of a diamond or the bouquet of a ripened peach.
From New York Times • May 14, 2024
In other words, it would be akin to a distress sale, a further blow for ByteDance's bottom line.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2024
Yes; she wanted it to look pretty; she wanted to infuse some beauty into her life—something which, in however remote a degree, should be akin to the things she read of in her books.
From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
