Words similar to akin

Example sentences for: akin

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They're the only guides we are discussing that didn't originate in the United States, and are still largely targeted at travelers from Australia and the British Isles: "New Yorkers feel a great affinity to [ sic ] their subway tokens, akin to what Americans in general feel about their useless one-cent coin ..."
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.
Their rarity is attributable to what linguists refer to as the economy of language , which is akin to the physical law stating that two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
But, as I have tried to explain to some of you, costs trumped caps in HR22; that is, you were still likely to see increases akin to those you experience under current law.
In short, the perception of these terms is culture-dependent, and culture is akin to language in the sense that while a large number of people might be said to speak a language, we know that it is made up of a larger number of dialects which, in turn, are made up of a still larger number of idiolects.