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à la

preposition as in in the manner of

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Y recrear la desesperación que les llevó a la tierra prometida el otoño pasado, mientras intentan convertirse en los primeros campeones repetidores de la MLB en 25 años.

La identidad preferida de los Dodgers para el equipo de este año parece ser la opuesta a la que funcionó el pasado octubre.

In August, Mexican authorities handed over Servando Gómez Martinez, a La Familia leader called “La Tuta,” to face drug trafficking charges in New York.

This is why it’s rare to see women eating a full meal on screen without being fat-shamed à la Monica from “Friends,” depicted as picky eaters like Sally in “When Harry Met Sally” or villainized as cannibals and murders as horror tropes so often do.

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He recovers from that brush with death by slapping bandages on his face and sunglasses over his black eye to downplay the damage, a la Jack Nicholson’s Jake in “Chinatown.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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