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resemble

[ri-zem-buhl] / rɪˈzɛm bəl /


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His songs have sections that resemble verses, bridges and choruses, but they unfold in strange ways and seem inseparable from how he performs them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Sergio, an artist in his own right, even constructed her first booth to resemble a fruit stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

They come in all shapes and sizes; some resemble a hockey-puck-like disc, while others look more like a rod.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

The monument is a line of arches and pillars constructed to resemble the fortress gates of Negatapam - a town in India and the scene of fighting between British and French forces in the 1780s.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

We do see vestigial signs of automobiles in our village, but they resemble the signs of life you would dig up in a graveyard if you were inclined to that pastime.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Magnetic moments spiral around a central line extending through the fossil, producing a structure that resembles a tornado-shaped vortex.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

"It resembles the comradeship and the bonds that were formed at the college at the time," he continued.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

If anyone resembles a future NFL player, it’s him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Another small gift—a favorite of Salima Boufelfel, a founder of vintage clothing stores in New York, Paris and Tucson, Ariz.—is Santa Maria Novella’s scented pomegranate, a terracotta vessel that smells like and resembles the fruit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

He lifts this thing off his ear that resembles the wireless earbuds, and his holographic glasses disappear.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

The anonymous account, whose picture resembled a "Jujutsu Kaisen" character dubbed by Tsuda, combined images and seemingly AI-generated speech about urban legends, occult phenomena and conspiracy theories.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Paleontologists have sometimes informally called zhelestids "Cretaceous rabbits" because they resembled rabbits despite being only distantly related to modern ones.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

I observed to him that his language resembled the ways the American Bitcoiners talked, and asked if he felt they were right to fear a fate similar to Zimbabwe’s.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

He zoomed in on what resembled a smudge on the image, and spotted tiny text.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Olympian gods were hard enough to imagine as parents, but at least they resembled humans.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Isamu Noguchi created a baby monitor before baby monitors were a thing: the Radio Nurse, a dark Bakelite receiver resembling an abstract face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

AI slop has begun appearing on restaurant menus, signs and advertisements, offering food imagery that looks optimized for appetite without necessarily resembling anything a person could cook.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Writer-director Reed Van Dyk’s feature debut navigates tricky emotional waters but emerges as a trenchant examination of what forgiveness and penitence can look like, allowing no room for anything resembling a pat happy ending.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Deep in a bunker, a device resembling an alarm clock sits on the desk of Maj.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

DNA is a double helix, the two intertwined strands resembling a “spiral” staircase.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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