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No single curator decides whether or not someone's work is 'good enough'--instead, the website's community of buyers along with other artists rate and vote on the pieces that they like, akin to social media websites like Facebook and Reddit.

Daniel Kraus's Booklist review of the novel described the intense psychological pressure as like "akin to joining the marines" but also providing the "built-in tension" that makes the novel a compelling read.

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And what of the rest of us, we who are not of the opinion that using verbal nouns and the like is akin to kicking an elderly lady off the bus — what do we have to be annoyed by?

He has also developed a mobile version which uses the same technology, but housed in a vertical totem-pole structure that sits atop a small temple-like pavilion, akin to those found in Beijing's parks.

Bone dry sidra is served by a peculiar "throwing" method, where an expert escanciador (waiter) will pour the drink from a great height, splashing it onto the side of the glass to aerate it, giving it a mousse-like texture akin to champagne.

That incessant horn-like drone akin to the noise of some obscure species of animal yet to be discovered by David Attenborough would belt out daily in South Africa.

An alternative approach to a corrosion-fatigue test scenario is suggested by micro-notching fatigue specimens prior to low salt flux corrosion to form grain boundary sulphide particles within channel-like features akin to stress assisted morphologies.

Darwin changed his mind about many of these beliefs, and by the time the Origin was published in 1859, he was confident enough to affirm in its closing passage that natural selection is a law-like process akin to gravity.

It's a spin on Jean- Paul Sartre's No Exit, and in it a handful of people are trapped with each other in an Ikea-like Purgatory akin to a roach hotel where you can check-in but you can't check out.

It was proposed that this might be a force-generating motor-like protein, akin to myosin, kinesin or dynein, which functioned directly in chromosome segregation.

The difference in GFP-PHPLCδ labeling of comet tips and of the plasma membrane was even more striking on images of the bottom plane of a cell showing intracellular comets that encountered the plasma membrane and evaginated it into filopodia-like structures, akin to those generated by Listeria-driven comets.

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