Thesaurus results for RESEMBLE

resemble

verb

Definition of resemble

as in to feel

to look or be like (someone or something) He strongly resembles his father in appearance and in temperament. Terrier dogs closely resemble each other.

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Recent Examples of resemble In her smartly vulgar The Seasons (1957), which extends nearly 17 feet, Krasner returns to the subject of rebirth one year after Pollock’s death, depicting abundant forms resembling genitalia. — John Yau, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2026 About 100 miles east of Springfield in Urbana, Beloved Inclusive Catholic Community resembles the house churches of early Christianity. — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026 The usual symptoms resemble the flu with headaches and muscle stiffness. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2026 From one of the craggy hills surrounding it, the strip resembles an urban planner’s modest attempt at a park. — Nicolas Niarchos, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for resemble

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The music on Uncle feels innate, as if Funkhouser had dug these songs out from deep within the crawlspace in his brain.

— Jeff Yerger, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2026
Few people feel affection for insurance companies or hospital bureaucracies that often function less as providers of care than as barriers to it.

— Scott Levenson, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of feel

Verb

Data from the Israel Defense Forces as of May 2025 suggested a Palestinian civilian death rate of 83%.

— Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
O’Rourke and double bassist Johan Berthling shape a steady drone, while Ishibashi’s piano runs suggest time-lapse footage of ice crystals forming, ordinary little bits cohering into objects of wonder.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of suggest

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With the presidential elections approaching next April, political parties are scrambling to position themselves in relation to a protest movement that has shown no sign of abating.

— Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
As seen from Planet 2, Planet 1 will appear to approach on the inside lane, slow down, move to the outside lane and then fall away once again.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of approach

Verb

The shop claimed to have reached out to clear the air, however that air does not seem to be getting any clearer.

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2026
One of the other things that Claude noticed was that these array of associated reverse transcriptases seem to be isolated to jumbo phages, which have very large genomes for bacteriophage.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of seem

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Companies appearing on the Norrsken/100 included those working on overhauling and strengthening grid capacity and transforming renewables storage.

— Sophie Dembinski, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
When appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last week, the Canadian pop singer teased the single.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026

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