Word: akin
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Much of Knowles’ letter was akin to a tutorial on the Faculty’s finances, laying out information that, he said, professors have lacked in past debates over financial priorities...
...longer drove the narrative. The supporting cast were no longer filtered through the chief, but had voices of their own. And, most surprisingly, Cornwell offered the perspective of the criminals, whose disturbing fantasies are rife with lust, murder, and mutilation. The difference between the new and old styles is akin to the dissimilarities between “Law & Order,” which only follows the police and district attorneys, and the spin-off “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” which incorporates the actions and motivations of the criminal offenders...
Garcia recalled then telling the two defendants in their car something akin to “you fucking assholes, you shouldn’t say shit like that here...
...Oyalowo? More like oy vey! Nick Hartigan’s replacement at running back, Akin Oyalowo, has managed just 124 yards through two games. DiGiacomo, the polished senior, can’t do it by himself, as seen in last week’s drubbing by Harvard...
...What the scientists told Allen was that they really wanted a virtual map for the genes that turn on and off in the brain, akin to the blueprint of the entire human genome that, at that time, was nearing completion. So in 2003, the same year that the Human Genome Project (HGP) was finished, Allen pitched in $41 million and launched the Allen Brain Atlas, an ambitious - and altruistic - indexing of the entire genome of the mouse brain that would be available, free of charge, to researchers on the Web. Why mice? It's impossible to get the live samples...