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Example sentences for: akin

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The ambiguity resulting from the conjunction of black and gold is akin to the distraction caused by optical illusions: Lehrer's phrase is both literally correct and literally nonsense.
If you want to remain really unknown, your bank can issue a draft, akin to a cashier's check, or you can arrange a money order.
Obuchi then commented that the only real solution might be massive military spending, akin to what World War II did to pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression.
The formation of identity is akin to the formation of the sandpile, with each person being unique and thus affected by events differently.
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 .)