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Example Sentences
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The 42-year-old Pacific Palisades native attributes his many lives to having an unparalleled amount of energy, a strain of inner bombast that could be likened to strobes of light and patterns behind closed eyelids.
From Los Angeles Times
They likened AI’s potential to transform the military to gunpowder, a technology invented in China but more effectively weaponized, many in China believe, by others.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick accused Carney of “an arrogant kind of thought,” and likened the prime minister’s speech to whining and complaining.
He likens the court documents on top of his desk to a time bomb that he refuses to touch.
Newspapers the next day were covered with images of the rebel French leader in his shades, with commentators likening Macron to Maverick from "Top Gun".
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
