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Discover LudwigThe word "likens" is correct and usable in written English
It is a verb that means to compare or make a comparison between two things, often in a metaphoric sense. Example: He likens the effects of climate change to a ticking time bomb, warning that the consequences will be far-reaching if we don't act soon.
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He likens directing to being a football coach.
Vincent likens grime to the punk scene in 1977, and is made up at the reaction their cover has received.
She again likens the campaign to a theatrical performance.
Katt Parkins likens it to an Etch-a-Sketch.
Warchus likens the tense, brittle, dysfunctional domestic milieu of Sicilia to the emotional tenor of The Man Who Wasn't There, while seeing parallels between joyful, comic Bohemia and the bucolic atmosphere of O Brother, Where Art Thou?
He calls it an early electronics education, by way of archaeology.Although at heart a physicist, Dr Mead read electrical engineering at Caltech and stayed on after graduating in 1957 to take a job as a lecturer in transistor electronics—an occupation he likens to "spelunking", the hobby of exploring caves, because it was new and full of darkness.
They appear to have retreated from this demand, which Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank, likens to a union threatening not merely to call a strike but to blow up the factory unless it gets what it wants.
Richard Ferlauto of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, one of the main proponents of say-on-pay votes, likens a negative vote to the yellow card that a referee shows an errant soccer player.
The millennium bug, after all, is just a bug, and squashing bugs is something IT departments do every day.Jim Bottome, IT director of British-American Tobacco, likens the millennium fix to another sort of major IT job switching from a mainframe computer to "client-server" PC software and says he devotes just a few days a month to overseeing the job.
Jack Kopnisky, the chief executive of First Marblehead, a provider of services for companies offering private student loans, likens the business to credit cards.
He likens the bureaucracy to a Roman legion that will protect itself in tortoise-like formation.
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