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Example sentences for: likened

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Sports pundits likened him to Michael Jordan and Jack Nicklaus.
Security around Eyes Wide Shut was likened to Los Alamos, except we now know that the Chinese penetrated Los Alamos.
When they relented and displayed their grief, they were likened to President Clinton (for feeling others' pain) and scorned for pandering to public opinion.
"Without going as far as the Times [of London], which likened some of his paintings to Monet on a bad day, the exhibition shows the work of a real artist," Libération added.
The truth is that Wieseltier's piece was a shameful, spite-ridden hatchet job on West, motivated almost entirely by the fact that West had been profiled in The New Yorker in 1994 and then assessed (along with lesser lights bell hooks and Michael Dyson) by me in a January 1995 essay that likened contemporary black intellectuals to the New York intellectuals of the postwar period.