The phrase "akin to many" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to draw a comparison or similarity between something and a large number of others.
Example: "Her approach to problem-solving is akin to many successful entrepreneurs who prioritize innovation."
Alternatives: "similar to many" or "comparable to many".
That problem is akin to many in Washington, and can and should be addressed by more transparency.
Presumably it will be a closed-end case that will come to a conclusion, making it akin to many cable series.
She tried to recover with another comment: making decisions about classroom space was akin to "many Sophie's Choices," she said, referring to the William Styron novel in which a mother is forced to choose which of her two children will die in the gas chamber at Auschwitz.
Robert Frank, whose book "The Americans" (1958) treated subjects akin to many in the older photographer's work, put it harshly but justly: "He traveled all over the goddamned world, and you never felt that he was moved by something that was happening other than the beauty of it, or just the composition".
In exploring such questions, The Walking Dead is akin to many post-apocalyptic horror dramas such as Danny Boyle's 2001 film, 28 Days Later, the 2008 BBC series Survivors, or John Wyndham's 1955 novel, The Chrysalids, about a post-nuclear apocalypse society.
But dressage is akin to many other Olympic sports - gymnastics, diving, figure skating at the Winter Games - in being subjectively judged, rewarding interpretations and artistry.
Zhang Yusheng, a physician-turned-tech-entrepreneur whose company makes software for doctors, said that while many physicians are primarily concerned about their online reputations (China has websites akin to RateMyMD), many still are happy to receive jinqi.
In some cases, traders do not have to go through a "two-step" identification procedure that is akin to what many consumers use to gain access to their online bank accounts.
And while they are focusing now on the core Chrome platform, there are plans for exposing an extension API to kickstart something akin to the many Firefox extensions available.
Apple's Music app in iOS 8.4 also reveals recently added music more easily, putting it at the top of the library by default, which is something more akin to what many streaming services offer in their interfaces.
Although for simple single-physics problems such an approach might be feasible; such an approach for a multi-physics analysis would be akin to the many body problem (which often involves additional nonlinear response associated with coupling, etc)., which would quickly become computationally intractable and unpredictable.
