Washington Post, sheesh

In a piece about the hazards of permanent daylight-saving time, another inapt similar to :

Similar to how sunlight in the morning can pull our internal clock earlier, light from any source too late into the evening can do the opposite and “push” our internal clock later.

Better:

Just as sunlight in the morning can pull our internal clock earlier, light from any source too late into the evening can do the opposite and “push” our internal clock later.

Could the awkward similar to result from fear of making a mistake with as or like ?

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