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Example sentences for: akin

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Her behavior was stupid and hurt a lot of people, but if the point here is to measure the size of her errors, they are barely perceptible next to those of the people who ruined her: a literary agent with profit and something akin to treason on her mind; a federal prosecutor who chose to hound and harass a citizen with overweening force and little justification; and journalists who cooperated by exposing every last detail of her private life.
1. Work mates: The former New York congressman has joined Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, the law and lobbying firm where Jordan works, along with founding partner and former Democratic National Committee head Robert Strauss.
Sam Adams is a lager beer that happens to be brewed in a slightly fuller-flavored style, something akin (perhaps) to mainstream American beers in the '40s and '50s.
Wieseltier's reaction was the worst, somewhat akin to his frantic, ill-informed denunciation of the essay by Lionel Trilling's son in a recent issue of the American Scholar .)
He contends that, in common conversation, "intern" can signify something akin to sexual receptacle, ergo no respectable young thing would accept the job title.