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Infinitive complement

• total: An absolutist stance on confidentiality is akin to total pacifism or to not telling a lie even to save a life.
• narrow: Utility itself is a limited thing akin to narrow material self interest.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• create: Many Labor supporters sense that Blair could very easily ditch Labor's historic identity to create something akin to the US Democratic Party.
• produce: Too low a temperature produces something akin to galvanized iron!
• become: It soon became an accomplishment akin to the modern day Snowdon or Ben Nevis experience.
• develop: I was a slow starter in developing anything akin to my own brand of humor.
• have: First I must apologize for almost reading this speech, nowadays I have a memory akin to a Goldfish.
• get: At first, there's a huge amount of this insertion for a few days, so you get symptoms akin to flu.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: In fact it seems more akin to settling down with a good paperback.
• feel: The whole system feels more akin to an actual fighting game than an action platformer.
• become: Indeed, " not to use the Internet for research is becoming akin to a reporter refusing to use the telephone.
• consider: In my judgment, given their destructive potential, they should more appropriately be considered akin to nuclear weapons.
• sound: So a propensity for some material to sound akin to the Hollies is not quite so surprising.
• look: It looks more akin to the 1920s products of the Southern Railroad, such as those at Margate and Ramsgate.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: This is a lost hotel bar somewhat akin to the infamous Colony Rooms drinking club in Soho beloved of Francis Bacon.
• closely: Such aspiration is closely akin to the theological virtue of hope.
• rather: Each DVD has its own key, rather akin to each door having a separate key to unlock it.
• perhaps: The dilemma is perhaps akin to the maturity mismatch faced by economies laboring under 'original sin ' .
• near: In connection with 5, and as very near akin to it in meaning, we may take - Ten.
• almost: The wearing surface was a very hard lime, almost akin to concrete.