Word: likens
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...Trotter, who has been following Kaysen's career since the younger chef applied for an internship in his kitchen two years ago, thinks this is the first time the U.S. has a chance to make it into the top three. But like politics, he notes, nothing is certain. "I liken Gavin to the Barack Obama of gastronomic figures," he observes. "He's not fully tested, yet he clearly impresses people." Lyons--and that chicken, halibut and crab--awaits...
...liken the immigrant wave to the Visigoths who sacked Rome. Is that fair...
Still, the people here are crazy about their Indians. Almost every storefront has a “Go Tribe” or “Welcome Indians” sign in its window. I would liken being a ballplayer in the Winter Haven area to being a Rhodes Scholar at Harvard and having everyone know about it—i.e. you’re “kind of a big deal...
...four decades later to show how Adams used advances in technology to his advantage—marked the beginning of the photographer’s transition from pictorialism to his trademark “straight” photography. “It’s really not unreasonable to liken it to a religious conversion,” says Rebecca Senf, one of the exhibit’s curators.The rest of the 180 or so photographs in the exhibit trace Adams’ mastery of straight photography—a style emphasizing sharp detail and tonal range over fuzzy abstraction...
...verb tenses down yet. No, no, no; wait until her grammar starts improving." But for some reason, if you put that same little girl in a book in first person, there are a certain segment of people who think that literature and fictional literature must be instructional. They liken it to a book of grammar. That's not what it is. This is the voice of a five-year-old that is entirely fictional, and just written for the fun of it. And what is really amazing to me is that kids get it. Even little kids, first graders...