"Look less-powerful weapons"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Opening sentence in a WSJ article:

"Take the nuclear option off the table, and some patents look less-powerful
weapons."

I have never noticed this construction [N-look-N without a preposition or
some form of to be] before in an edited publication.

DanG

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