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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of liken.

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Examples

  • It didn't quite fold -- like the cheap camera to which Rabbi Yehua Levin likened Carl Paladino after the latter backed off his nasty remarks about homosexuals and gay marriage -- but our mortgage bank, Chase Home Weasel, finally 'fessed up, in writing, to wrongdoing.

    Alfred Gingold: 'Chase Home Weasel' Backs off Alfred Gingold 2010

  • It didn't quite fold -- like the cheap camera to which Rabbi Yehua Levin likened Carl Paladino after the latter backed off his nasty remarks about homosexuals ...

    Alfred Gingold: 'Chase Home Weasel' Backs off Alfred Gingold 2010

  • It didn't quite fold -- like the cheap camera to which Rabbi Yehua Levin likened Carl Paladino after the latter backed off his nasty remarks about homosexuals and gay marriage -- but our mortgage bank, Chase Home Weasel, finally 'fessed up, in writing, to wrongdoing.

    Alfred Gingold: 'Chase Home Weasel' Backs off Alfred Gingold 2010

  • It didn't quite fold -- like the cheap camera to which Rabbi Yehua Levin likened Carl Paladino after the latter backed off his nasty remarks about homosexuals and gay marriage -- but our mortgage bank, Chase Home Weasel, finally 'fessed up, in writing, to wrongdoing.

    Alfred Gingold: 'Chase Home Weasel' Backs off Alfred Gingold 2010

  • It didn't quite fold -- like the cheap camera to which Rabbi Yehua Levin likened Carl Paladino after the latter backed off his nasty remarks about homosexuals and gay marriage -- but our mortgage bank, Chase Home Weasel, finally 'fessed up, in writing, to wrongdoing.

    Alfred Gingold: 'Chase Home Weasel' Backs off Alfred Gingold 2010

  • It didn't quite fold -- like the cheap camera to which Rabbi Yehua Levin likened Carl Paladino after the latter backed off his nasty remarks about homosexuals and gay marriage -- but our mortgage bank, Chase Home Weasel, finally 'fessed up, in writing, to wrongdoing.

    Alfred Gingold: 'Chase Home Weasel' Backs off Alfred Gingold 2010

  • It didn't quite fold -- like the cheap camera to which Rabbi Yehua Levin likened Carl Paladino after the latter backed off his nasty remarks about homosexuals ...

    Alfred Gingold: 'Chase Home Weasel' Backs off Alfred Gingold 2010

  • It didn't quite fold -- like the cheap camera to which Rabbi Yehua Levin likened Carl Paladino after the latter backed off his nasty remarks about homosexuals ...

    Alfred Gingold: 'Chase Home Weasel' Backs off Alfred Gingold 2010

  • It didn't quite fold -- like the cheap camera to which Rabbi Yehua Levin likened Carl Paladino after the latter backed off his nasty remarks about homosexuals and gay marriage -- but our mortgage bank, Chase Home Weasel, finally 'fessed up, in writing, to wrongdoing.

    Alfred Gingold: 'Chase Home Weasel' Backs off Alfred Gingold 2010

  • OK, Einstein likened spacetime to the aether because it acts upon and can be perturbed by matter.

    Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

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