not unlike

idiom

: similar to

Its texture is not unlike that of oatmeal.

Examples of not unlike in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web So at the end of April, Mr. Xi and his 23 top policymakers began to discuss the idea of taking some of those unwanted apartments off the market in a program not unlike the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which the U.S. government set up in the wake of the American housing market crash. —

Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 24 May 2024 Something new? Hold on… not unlike Kenzie Petty, I am being told that the challenge is not over. —

Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 May 2024 The film spans a nearly 25-year stretch of real-time, creating a temporal portrait not unlike Richard Linklater’s Boyhood — but one that depicts the growing pains of modern China itself as much as the growth of its characters. —

Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024 Bezos’ fixation on his clients is not unlike an unrequited crush, fueled by the knowledge of the other playing hard to get or being temperamental. —

Chloe Berger, Fortune, 15 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for not unlike

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