liken to

phrasal verb

likened to; likening to; likens to
: to describe (someone or something) as similar to (someone or something else)
Some critics have likened his writing to Faulkner's.
She likened her trip to a pilgrimage.

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Trump had previously demanded $1 billion from UCLA in exchange for restoring the frozen grants, which Newsom likened to extortion. Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025 Their fortitude resulted in a thoughtful, lyrically dense project that ‘Nandez likens to a collection of personal and political anecdotes rapped on production that Preservation built around ‘Nandez baritone vocal tone. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025 The bandwidths or frequencies that carry the signals (channels to us non-engineers) are likened to the lanes of a freeway. Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025 An official video, which has since been taken down, showed a vibrant spectacle of fireworks being unleashed from the top of a mountain, forming a winding line that Cai – the mastermind behind 2008 Beijing Olympic Games’ fireworks display – likened to a dragon. Chris Lau, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for liken to

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“Liken to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liken%20to. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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