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Typically, spending on expensive durable goods — new cars, appliances, laptops and the like — declines when households feel financial stress.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

"It also cannot be detached from a wider shift in the city towards high end markets, where you have so many more expensive hotels and restaurants and the like."

From BBC • May 12, 2026

That action was in response to news that an internal investigation at Prudential had found “multiple inappropriate cases involving improper investment solicitation and the like by current and former employees” within its Japan operations.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

Otherwise, he reverts to various forms of industrial policy, such as requiring foreign companies to form partnerships with German firms as a cost of entry into the European market and the like.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Since they were, in fact, children, they would not be convincing as pigs, cows, chickens, and the like.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood