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What does akin mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.
  2. (to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
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I see these covert mechanisms as being akin to the development of politically correct language.
I believe the main flaw of textbook TCM is the way it has apparently reduced the therapeutic process to something akin to a computer flow chart.
His position is akin to that of the rebellious dissenters of the seventeenth century.
The core of the performance is a joonba, a traditional performance akin to a corroboree.
Hearing these confessionals was a thrill akin to skimming Lady Macbeth's diary or getting drunk with Machiavelli.
She said there has been nothing akin to the feeling she had when she was standing on the podium and hearing NZ's national anthem being played.

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