be akin
Example Sentences
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In this argument, the compute tax would be akin to a pollution tax.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
The deal struck by Rahm is said to be "akin" to what the other eight players agreed last February.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
Keeping Pages in center field would in no way be akin to keeping, say, Devon White or Willie Davis in center field.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025
To say that all the above information is upsetting for job seekers would be akin to saying that the meteor from 66 million years ago was bothersome for the dinosaurs.
From Salon • Jul. 28, 2024
He thinks, like many another philosopher of feeling, that since his is a part of the sum of experience, the whole of experience should be akin to his.
From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by Santayana, George
