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Doctors have described her progress so far as akin to a miracle.
Reuters
2
She said she thought file sharing was akin to internet radio streaming.
Wired
3
Brawlers focus on fast action fighting much akin to tag team wrestling.
Wired
4
Mr Peters rebuffed claims that Ihumātao protests were akin to Bastion Point.
Radio NZ
5
Mr Corker and the president used to be something akin to allies.
BBC
6
It was inexorable and unseen; and being unseen, close akin to terror.
The Blind Spot
7
People like Mr Kelly are akin, in many ways, to war criminals.
The Irish Times
8
Hers it refined; it made her into something akin to an angel.
Alone
9
The truth is relationships are more akin to experience ebbs and flows.
Ebony
10
He and the storm were in a way akin to each other.
Poor White: A Novel
11
The zebrafish gastrointestinal system matures in a manner akin to higher vertebrates.
Pubmed
12
Animal life had something in it akin to her own voiceless being.
Wild Youth, Volume 1.
13
The interest is akin to the dot-com race of the late 1990s.
Reuters
14
In a way, finding one's tribe is akin to falling in love.
A Wiccan Bible
15
There is in this interest something that makes all the world akin.
The Best Ghost Stories
16
Gymnosperms, akin to the cycads, were also present in the Carboniferous forests.
The Elements of Geology
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