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like

[lahyk] / laɪk /




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for instance
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And they started like a team with a point to prove after Eskinazi won the toss, backed by a vocal travelling support.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

He argued countries like China were further driving down interest rates by investing their huge trade surpluses into safe assets like U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

"It's like the difference between stargazing at night versus the daytime," he says.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

Bryan Mbeumo: A lot of strong runs but, like many Man Utd forwards, nowhere near his best.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

The news hits Father Monaghan like a thunderbolt—a paralyzing awareness that the Philippines is in instant, terrible danger.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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 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 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 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 Apr. 18, 2016

"An' do you know, sir, I'm fancyin' of late they're growin' liker to one another."

From Donald and Dorothy by Mary Mapes Dodge

Mercy, Shakespeare wrote, "Earthly power doth then show likest God's/ When mercy seasons justice."

From Time Jan. 17, 2012

Why then do we not recognize this the chief homogenic substance of the earth, likest of substances to its inner nature and closest allied to its very marrow?

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert

Thou give us thy servant, and take from us what marvels thou likest best.”—“But what marvels have ye then?”—“Look and see!”

From Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain

The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

What other children were he was; If more, ’twas not to mortal ken; The being likest to mankind Made him the man of men.

From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various

Kaminetsky likes to talk as if she’s a personal shopper.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

He comes to the Sunday market “whenever I have a chance,” because he likes the food and music.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

Oasis had been among the favourites to headline next year, alongside the likes of the perennially rumoured Taylor Swift and Madonna, as well as Harry Styles, Sam Fender, Ed Sheeran, Sabrina Carpenter and Fred Again.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

Lemonides also likes Lyft as more of a “pure play” on the U.S. ride-sharing business than Uber, he said.

From MarketWatch Sep. 17, 2026

“I have, Andrew. They’re sending someone. That’s part of why I’m calling. I know she’s wandered off before. Is there somewhere in particular she likes to go? Somewhere we should look first?”

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

The entire market has become so expensive, by so many measures, that one-way bets, the investments Buffett liked to call “fat pitches,” are hard to find.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

“South Park” has always liked food for this reason.

From Salon Sep. 18, 2026

He added that he would have liked Sheeran to issue an apology to the Jewish community for making part of his audience "very uncomfortable".

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

As I came up, I liked what was simple.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

No one liked humans, not even the half-brained toads who lived in the muddy ditch along the road.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Do you tend to hop from one relationship to another, or is liking someone this much really rare for you?

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

Social media allowed them to be endlessly self-obsessed, without ever coming around to liking what they see.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

“Why would Simon & Schuster drop it? Because apparently it already had a huge amount of success. So people were liking it,” said Chakrabarty.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

My dummy account, Mohammed, was a profile set to private and designed to look similar to the accounts of younger Moroccan people who were liking and commenting on the posts advertising crossings.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

“Of course I do! It’s just I’m not liking any of the options.”

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen




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