be akin
Example Sentences
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That might be akin to Alan Greenspan’s more tight-lipped Fed of the past.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
After having held rates at a low level for years, announcing the start of a hiking cycle would be akin to “hitting a gong,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Paul: To suggest Slot is in trouble would be akin to saying last season never happened!
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
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
The external world, because it is intelligible, must be akin to us; there must be an intelligence in it, otherwise it would never become an object of knowledge to our intelligence.
From Letters to His Friends by Robinson, Forbes
