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resembling

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for resembling.

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D) People want fixed, written in stone deadlines before the prototyping is done when things are still too fluid for anything resembling a good time estimate is possible.

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Quick take

The action of the verb to resemble.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of resembling gathered in one view.

noun

The action of the verb to resemble.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for resembling.

noun

The action of the verb to resemble.

Example sentences

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D) People want fixed, written in stone deadlines before the prototyping is done when things are still too fluid for anything resembling a good time estimate is possible.

2

Would the chance of randomly getting anything resembling a trademark not be so low that it is a non-issue?

3

If they are taking in millions in revenue daily at anything resembling a high margin, why would they need anyone's ~$180m?

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Now your apps is resembling a native app, but a whole lot more complicated.

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But everything resembling a DB is slow on EC2 since I/O is slow and memory accesses are slow, so I think the problem is EC2 and not Cassandra, MySQL,...

6

Survivorship bias does not begin to explain this; there have not been anything resembling 33 million hedge funds over the course of history.

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The gulf between Neil Young and anyting resembling consensual reality seems vast.

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I'm not saying basic income is on the horizon, but if trends continue into the future, we will see something resembling it.

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Setting down anything resembling a sane and consistent policy on what is and isn't allowed behavior on Reddit has been one of its weaknesses for years now.

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I did 4 years ago, never had anything resembling depression since that.

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After skimming through the article, it seems that the proposed langauge resembles a general-purpose language (at least superficially resembling lua/javascript) with FFI to C (again what lua is good at).

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Probably the baseline for a studio apartment (I've never seriously looked so could be a bit off) is £800-£900 per month for anywhere resembling a decent location.

Quote examples

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I've never heard "I didn't build houses for 20 years so city council could draft up unsafe regulations" or anything resembling the veterans mantra.

2

It's a bit more complicated than just telling people "Don't mug", but something pretty much resembling "Teach X not to Y" is used by the US Govt.

3

What's odd is that for all I read about prison (and having had a friend go through prison), there's basically 0 effort or programs in place at most prisons to do anything remotely resembling actual "rehabilitation".

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"potential conflict/landing sites") were simply drawn with no relation to reality to fill in the space with something superficially resembling the density of roads but with different angles/locations/everything; the locals knew to not rely on this and for construction/planning purposes you used different maps than the civilians.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use resembling in a sentence?

D) People want fixed, written in stone deadlines before the prototyping is done when things are still too fluid for anything resembling a good time estimate is possible.

What does resembling mean?

The action of the verb to resemble.

What part of speech is resembling?

resembling is commonly used as noun.