likening

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More than 1,600 employees signed a petition calling for it to end, with some likening the company to a "data extraction factory," according to media reports.

From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026

He said estimating the value of the sapling was difficult, because of its intangible sentimental value, likening it to a piece of "stolen art".

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026

A fierce advocate of information control, he argued that the internet had to be tightly managed, likening new technologies to “a wild colt” that “can and must be controlled.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026

“They’re such a truly deep thinking, emotional human being who has a voracious IQ,” Smith says, likening D’Arcy’s approach and prep to that of a historian’s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026

What, therefore, is the sense of likening a flower, such as a Delphinium, which is really of a splendid pure-blue colour, to the duller and totally different colour of a third-rate gem?

From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Jekyll, Gertrude