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Does this seem like a reasonable strategy for someone in my position, given that Social Security covers my fixed expenses?
From MarketWatch β Nov. 6, 2026
Those like Green, who are concerned over cryptographic algorithms collapsing under AI innovation, worry that somewhere out there in the world of mathematics is an as-yet-undiscovered white whale.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 6, 2026
In the Cornell backlash, he blamed "people who felt that the status quo was being threatened, people who didn't like the idea of women being treated equally, people who wanted to shut up women."
From Barron's β Nov. 6, 2026
“Our grip department were like MacGyver,” Arnaquq-Baril says.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 6, 2026
“Just a direct gaze like he’s always known where he’s going. Doesn’t doubt himself.”
From "Willβs Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Hayes explained that this type of segmentation could be used to develop tailored products that account for the specific "sour liker" taste profile.
From Science Daily β Apr. 29, 2024
But I was a very active liker of “A Ghost Story,” which, as with “The Green Knight,” seems to unfold in some eerie netherworld between life and death.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 7, 2021
Only once did I go on a date with a sarcasm liker — she included it to warn people she’s found who get offended, especially in the Midwest.
From Washington Post β Nov. 8, 2018
He’s not doing anything inappropriate or otherwise creepy, and he’s not sending you inappropriate messages—he’s just an inveterate liker.
From Slate β Apr. 18, 2016
It is a heap of stones, and men with a vast confusion of languages; and, were the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel.
From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown
Mercy, Shakespeare wrote, "Earthly power doth then show likest God's/ When mercy seasons justice."
From Time β Jan. 17, 2012
I look back with something which is akin to pity on the vain child who thought fine clothes and array the likest to enhance the fair face and form which maybe God has given me.
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Emma Marshall
I believe it," quoth Sancho, "had my adventure with the blanket been of that kind; but sure it was likest the real tossing in a blanket of anything I ever knew in my life.
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
I thank thee, Annie; I thank thee, Annie;55 Sae dearly as I thank thee; You're the likest to my sister Annie, That ever I did see.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
"Tha likest me, doesna ta?" he asked softly.
From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
In addition, he noted that by taking a big swing at prediction markets, DraftKings would be going up against the likes of Polymarket and Kalshi.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 6, 2026
Big capital expenditures by the likes of Microsoft or Meta are written off against taxes immediately, yet expensed on the income statement over many years.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 6, 2026
The German brands meanwhile had to compete with the likes of China's BYD, which started out making batteries for mobile phones, and Xpeng, founded by software entrepreneur He Xiaopeng.
From Barron's β Nov. 6, 2026
The England captain has just won the Ballon d'Or, likes to play almost every minute for his country and is the captain, record goalscorer and arguably the best player in Tuchel's side.
From BBC β Nov. 5, 2026
You know I could just ask her if she likes you?”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman liked to say the human mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 6, 2026
Corinne Card also found herself floored when the first question she was asked in an interview for an administrative job was if she liked working with people.
From BBC β Nov. 6, 2026
“I had five performances, and what the musicians said to me about what they liked was that I did something different every time,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 5, 2026
"It's a vein that people have been after for 50 years, and the owner of the quarry didn't want to sell it, but he liked me," he touted.
From Barron's β Nov. 4, 2026
I liked Sandy June’s, particularly summer night activities.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Blevins’s bad-cop reputation gave his staff leverage: They threatened to call him in if contract terms weren’t to their liking.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 29, 2026
These little things also have cute avatars, which you can customize to your liking.
From Slate β Oct. 14, 2026
But, as Stone makes clear in her video content, her definition of liking or even loving a husband is both laborious and ascetic to an extreme.
From Salon β Sep. 28, 2026
Wanting is the motivational pull towards something; liking is the pleasure of having it.
From BBC β Sep. 23, 2026
Not liking to sit in the cold and darkness, I thought I would lie down on my bed, dressed as I was.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte BrontΓ«
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