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Some researchers liken the mind to a snow globe: the drugs temporarily disrupt established thought patterns, allowing thoughts and feelings to settle differently and providing new perspectives on past experiences.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Siskel and Ebert wannabes Rob Pelinka and JJ Redick of the Lakers liken themselves to iconic film protagonists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
While it would be terrific to liken her fate to that of Deborah Vance on “Hacks,” at least Jean Smart’s diva got a Vegas rebirth.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Analysts are largely bullish on both companies and liken picking which one they prefer to choosing a favorite child.
From MarketWatch ● May 25, 2026
Other commentators liken the prison label to “the mark of Cain” and characterize the perpetual nature of the sanction as “internal exile.”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Our call of the day comes from the investor known as the bond king, Jeffrey Gundlach, who likens stock markets to a hollow tree that’s about to break.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
He likens eyelids to "a pair of curtains".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Hal likens Soldiers & Sailors to Dante’s Inferno, a place where souls are damned to eternally relive their most terrible experiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Bandopadhyay likens a low-mass star to a fluffy meringue.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
He likens himself to “a simple worshipper of the eternal Buddha,” he tells both Theo and Gauguin.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
Some historians have likened the dispute to the French and German tug-of-war over Charlemagne.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
He likened the matter to a Pandora’s box, which “rarely closes” once it’s been opened.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Brook likened to Pietersen in SL win - how do they compare?
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Senate whose winning primary campaign former New York Times columnist Charles Blow likened to Obama’s 2008 faceoff against Hillary Clinton.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Early rock and roll was likened to medieval plagues by the clueless journalists and nervous educators of the time.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
Some may take issue with likening Oprah Winfrey to J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 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
Bessent dubbed the initiative Economic D-Day, likening the effort to the World War II campaign.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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
But we have set forth the theoretical reasons which prevent us from likening the living being, a system closed off by nature, to the systems which our science isolates.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
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