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resemble

[ri-zem-buhl] / rɪˈzɛm bəl /


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Although they may resemble plants or rocks, corals are animals.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

The person on the other end may claim to represent a bank or lender and use scripts that closely resemble those of legitimate customer-service representatives.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

But Unsworth, who leads foraging trips across Lancashire, warned people not to eat wild mushrooms unless they were certain they had identified them correctly, as some poisonous species can closely resemble edible varieties.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

“The inimitable Locke,” he answered, “saith that mankind is engaged in perpetual uneasiness, and that it is lack which motivates us forward. In our desires, we resemble the action of a two-legged table.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The researchers suggest that this resembles how the brain uses previously learned expectations to interpret new experiences.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Trapped in this stiffer, earlier incarnation, the only acting Strong is able to do is poke his head straight up from his shoulders until he resembles a retractable pen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

His every motive feels ulterior, and his inevitable simmering romance with Lowen resembles a can of worms that could pop open at any moment.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

An AFP team saw a chimney spewing out black smoke at the site, which in places resembles a black lunar landscape, in March 2025.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The rest of the year the water dries up and the bright green vastness turns into something that resembles a desert.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

In 2024, the actor threatened legal action against OpenAI after the company released its voice assistant — known as Sky — for ChatGPT, which she alleged resembled her voice without her consent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Its hunting behavior could have resembled that of modern anacondas and large pythons, which can overpower prey through constriction.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

On the surface, it seems like harmless video game humor, and I’m sure we’ve all had encounters with actual humans that resembled interacting with tautological machines programmed with limited responses.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

With the dragon’s broad horselike face and flattened body, it resembled the sort of zmeu that might adorn a medieval icon or tapestry.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Dr. Mike Hapgood, a Visiting Scientist and space weather expert at the UK's national space laboratory, RAL Space, described the research process as something resembling a detective investigation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

By the play’s end, Mr. Baitz has with remarkable dexterity transformed what might at first have seemed a formulaic if foolproof comedy into something more closely resembling tragedy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Huang's "defence of CoreWeave's financial position was enough to pull the NeoCloud complex off the floor, drag AI equities higher and give the broader market something resembling a pulse", wrote SPI Asset Management's Stephen Innes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

Even today I cannot muster anything resembling anger for Bunny.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt


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