liken to
phrasal verb
likened to; likening to; likens to
: to describe (someone or something) as similar to (someone or something else)
Some critics have likened his writing to Faulkner's.
She likened her trip to a pilgrimage.
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It could be likened to forewarning before an earthquake hit, a California kind of signaling.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
Yasin Demirci—Anadolu/Getty Images More than 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) thick in places, Thwaites has been likened to a cork in a bottle.
—Danielle Bochove / Bloomberg, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024
More than 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) thick in places, Thwaites has been likened to a cork in a bottle.
—Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 20 Sep. 2024
With a grip on its readers that Harari likens to QAnon’s, Kramer’s book encouraged the witch hunts that killed tens of thousands.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
Yasin Demirci—Anadolu/Getty Images More than 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) thick in places, Thwaites has been likened to a cork in a bottle.
—Danielle Bochove / Bloomberg, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024
More than 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) thick in places, Thwaites has been likened to a cork in a bottle.
—Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 20 Sep. 2024
With a grip on its readers that Harari likens to QAnon’s, Kramer’s book encouraged the witch hunts that killed tens of thousands.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
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“Liken to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liken%20to. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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