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    1. So there you are left in The Waiting Room living a life more akin to


    2. Without coercion, without laws and governments, isn't it something akin to the ants that guides these people, that makes them do what they have to do to make their world function?"


    3. offering a series of rooms akin to monk’s cells laid out in a


    4. The man was dangerous beyond belief, against her will he had plunged the depths of her soul – something the Elders considered forbidden, akin to rape


    5. The Dead Gods fought amongst themselves, and in such a reckless abandon that their actions seemed akin to suicidal


    6. Much to her delight, Dick pulled his cock out of his brother and with something akin to a wild roar of a young animal, moved up on the bed and sank his prick into her mouth


    7. The auric field of the spirit is cleansed here and such a rejuvenation process is akin to mending of one’s spiritual skin


    8. Every single person is akin to an artist collectively painting a huge portrait entitled ‘humanity’


    9. This time it could of course be put down to something akin to sleepwalking, whereas before the usual paralysing effects still held


    10. There were people, a frightened screaming boy being taken from a dormitory by a cyborg similar in appearance to himself, then deposited in something akin to an operating theatre

    11. It was more akin to reverse entropy; an undoing of cause and effect, but with such swiftness it seemed like an obliteration


    12. Falling towards terra-firma was something akin to the initial free fall of a parachute jump, except there would be no parachute


    13. To call him a mere motorist is somewhat akin to calling Genghis Khan a mere horseman


    14. Sounds somewhat akin to Obama"s voting against helping babies who have survived abortion to stay alive


    15. He was left on an open-ended bed akin to an operating table whilst the surrounding walls and ceiling literally appeared to shrink


    16. They doubtless believed for a human to be in possession of such technology was something akin to a prehistoric man with a gun; not merely dangerous to oneself and others but somehow contaminating the natural process of progression


    17. It seemed to be something akin to an arms race much as had been the case between the East and West (before the Nine seized control); either side nudging ahead in their cold war


    18. But he could never have been like L-Seven-Six who possessed something akin to omniscience, that awareness and attentiveness


    19. To think of it as a mere time machine was akin to referring to a Monet painting as a fusion of brush strokes on canvas, or any great novel as a text-based conveyor of a story


    20. That skill is closely akin to certain types of chemical alchemy, and I know how to make quite a few handy potions

    21. We are saying to banksters stop your inhuman behaviour in treating defaulters as something akin to Satan


    22. He is not something akin to Satan to be hounded and humiliated at will


    23. Unfortunately the child and his mom may still be treated like something akin to Satan by the community


    24. We are saying to banksters stop your inhuman behaviour in treating defaulters as something akin to satan


    25. He is not something akin to satan to be hounded and humiliated at will


    26. Unfortunately the child and his mom may still be treated like something akin to satan by the community


    27. He just sat there looking at her with his face contorted into a look suspiciously akin to possessiveness


    28. Neither did any of the group who stood regarding them in something akin to awe


    29. There was some hesitation in his voice, even something faintly akin to embarrassment:


    30. They had to be the work of beings akin to Gods or their dutiful servants

    31. Her thoughts were disturbed by what seemed to be sounds akin to yelling and shouting coming from other parts of the house


    32. Gordon’s anti-drug obsession used to make him smile but, this early morning, he was anything but amused – rather the flashing lights and painted barriers seemed akin to the gates of Hell


    33. Hilderich felt curiously intrigued by the improbably styled interior of the tower, though it troubled him that the atmosphere this place exuded was not akin to a place of healing


    34. Language like that in the preceding quote seemed to me more like one of those borrowings that I have referred to earlier, whose basis was more akin to mythological folklore


    35. In the following story, I hope to create something akin to what it might have been like to have lived through such a catastrophe, carrying a memory of all those who had died around them as they fled south over the mountains just ahead of the water that seemed to have covered the whole world


    36. A dental splint, which is akin to a cast on a broken or sprained arm or leg, may also be helpful in protecting the tissues while they recover


    37. It concerns a man named Louis Alveras and his discovery of something akin to Revelation’s description of a burning mountain falling out of the sky


    38. Might it be that the depth John had to peer into his vision for the merest of an understanding was what caused him to couch his interpretation of temptation in the idol-worshiping sexuality more akin to his day and in prior times, a kind of parabolic reference to the sort of temptation that might be prevalent in a future that he was grossly ill-equipped to envision?


    39. An engine left running on idle over a long period of time then would develop carbon clogging that at some stage would begin to interfere with performance in the median range where it was set for average efficiency and performance, something akin to cholesterol buildup in the body


    40. A long time ago, probably somewhere around 1,700 BC or before, had a learned scribe tried to put into words that which had been spoken to him by one who had seen a vision? The words, in whatever language it was first enunciated and then, whenever it was written, probably could have been translated into something akin to the opening quotation

    41. These would be akin to such things as “I hurt myself” in English


    42. disagrees with the labeler often carries a negative connotation akin to “extremist,”


    43. rudimentary, but the flanking maneuver had been invented! Jason wondered if this was akin to what the jump shot had done for basketball


    44. It is akin to psychology


    45. There can be no doubt that salvation is a miracle akin to resurrection - it is life from


    46. no doubt that salvation is a miracle akin to resurrection - it is life from the


    47. Therefore hating one who appears different than oneself is akin to hating one’s own self since we


    48. harmony of color, even in harmony of motion itself, its beauty is akin to that


    49. This kind of attack is akin to stealing the building master keys from the building janitor: the perpetrator accesses the system as if they were an entrusted employee


    50. Einstein may have been a great scientist, but his “political and social” ideas were much more akin to those of Soviet Russia than









































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    Synonyms for "akin"

    akin blood-related cognate consanguine consanguineal consanguineous kin kindred

    "akin" definitions

    similar in quality or character


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