likened
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of Liken
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Agatha likened him to a "fox in a hen coop" while Dracula preferred "a connoisseur in a wine cellar."
Away from the presidential briefings that played like “The Apprentice,” he likened the process of approving potential treatments to “Shark Tank.”
Berg (2004) p. 313. This self-assuredness meant she could be controlling and difficult; her friend Garson Kanin likened her to a schoolmistress, Kanin (1971) p. 54. and she was famously blunt and outspoken.
A Renaissance dance can be likened to a ball.
Bahá'u'lláh likened death to the process of birth.
Darwin likened this to gardening: a flowerbed could be sprinkled with seeds "most of which soon germinate, some lie for a period dormant, whilst others perish."