The phrase "akin to other" is not correct as it is incomplete.
It can be used when comparing something to other similar things, but it needs to be followed by a noun or a complete thought.
Example: "Her style is akin to other artists in the modern movement."
Alternatives: "similar to other" or "comparable to other".
Depression is a real illness, akin to other medical illnesses like diabetes.
Other experts who were not involved in the study said it highlighted the need for careful storage – akin to other temperature-sensitive food products – and preparation.
They made that portrait a monument to family life, akin to other art works of family life in Rome — say, Michelangelo's Pietà at St. Peter's, the mother caressing the body of her crucified adult child.
Housing is an economically sound investment but unless housing is treated with a level of investment and priority akin to other forms of infrastructure, we could well be on a road to nowhere.
One of the two industry bodies, the Debt Resolution Forum, has begun a staff qualification that involves 210 hours of study and has a 70 per cent pass rate, which is akin to other basic qualifications in the financial services.
The findings suggest that many doctors do not consider drug abuse a medical problem akin to other chronic diseases like diabetes, asthma or high blood pressure, Dr. Friedmann said.
He has abolished the 'slab system' with a gradually applied set of thresholds more akin to other taxes, where buyers only pay a higher rate on the part of the purchase that has exceeded that threshold.
As gimmicky as this seems, in practice it translates into a kind of monumental performance sculpture, with the music being piped in, sounding expressively akin to other modernist German composers performed by the Ardittis, like Helmut Lachenmann.
That makes them akin to other compelling but legal pastimes, such as gambling, following a football club or collecting stamps.There is a long tradition of dire warnings about new forms of media, from translations of the Bible into vernacular languages to cinema and rock music.
It would also set workers' contributions at a fixed premium, rather then a fixed share of wages as now.The idea is twofold: to stop future rises in health costs from being passed on to employers' wage bill and, if the FDP has its way, to control them by promoting a competitive market in health care akin to other forms of insurance.
QUESTION FROM MEGAN: I am torn between taking the long view of Beck and Co. (i.e. seeing them as something akin to other surges in populist rhetoric in the past and viewing this with some detached interest) and, on the other hand, feeling something closer to panic over the state of American politics.
