not unlike

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: similar to
Its texture is not unlike that of oatmeal.

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In many of Candy’s performances, Carney said, there was a moment when his characters would take a turn after being pushed too far, which is not unlike how Canada is currently being pushed around economically by the United States. Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025 Weeks of driving around the Central Valley, darting between muddy fields not unlike the very birds they were hired to monitor, has reinforced to Carr and Stallworth how much available habitat remains. Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025 When a mother tree is felled, the survival rate of many of its seedlings may be drastically reduced, a process not unlike the reciprocal feedback loop of Yggdrasill, whose deterioration in response to discord in the nine realms spells cosmic collapse. Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025 The story is set on a long-range spaceship, not unlike that movie’s Nostromo, where a Xenomorph — with some help from the eyeball monster and our other new creepy-crawlies — kills off the crew until only one member is left. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for not unlike

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“Not unlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/not%20unlike. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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