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“I like the idea of, she has her money, I have my money, and then we have a joint account to save up for a house or something,” John said.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 3, 2026
Military plans like Grynkewich’s aim to make deep-strike attacks essentially automatic following a Russian military attack.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 3, 2026
But Herrera pursues outrage like it’s his calling.
From Slate β Nov. 3, 2026
After he texted her six months later, she said she told him he had "treated me like an animal".
From BBC β Nov. 3, 2026
The leaflets fall on the country like rain.
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 β Apr. 29, 2024
Mary Jo is a decisive and unafraid liker of what she likes, and disliker of what she does not.
From Washington Post β Jun. 28, 2022
Some context: Wesley Britt, the tweet liker, is married to Katie Britt, who is running against several other Republicans in the Alabama primary for this year’s midterm elections.
From Slate β Apr. 18, 2022
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
I would be liker a man if I rose and struck this creature down; but Thou madest me a coward from my mother’s womb.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Mercy, Shakespeare wrote, "Earthly power doth then show likest God's/ When mercy seasons justice."
From Time β Jan. 17, 2012
First, common, and mutuall necessity of one another; and therefore naturally in our defence and subventions we first flie to our selves; next, to that which is likest, other men.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne
The wish that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave; Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soul?
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson
On another occasion:— The golden Sun in splendour likest Heaven Allured his eye.—iii. 572-73.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
If thou likest him more than me, I'll travel away from thee, I'll travel away from thee.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach
The departures of the likes of Mateus Fernandes, Crysencio Summerville, El Hadji Malick Diouf, James Ward-Prowse and Freddie Potts secured the club about £150m in transfer revenue.
From BBC β Nov. 3, 2026
Social media companies have been forced to purge millions of accounts after Australia banned under-16s from the likes of Facebook, TikTok and Reddit last December.
From Barron's β Nov. 3, 2026
Nobody likes to eat and then not feel good afterwards, right?
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 2, 2026
Juanita Vallejo, 40, of Edinburg, Texas, said she sees Hinojosa as an “empowered woman,” and likes her firm stances in support of public schools and curtailing data centers.
From Salon β Nov. 2, 2026
I’m glad she likes me as much as I like her, but it was embarrassing.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
Although the delay would suggest things are not going as the governing body would have liked.
From BBC β Nov. 2, 2026
In the Lubbock audience, Andrew Robinson, a student from nearby Texas Tech University, liked what he heard.
From BBC β Nov. 1, 2026
He also kept it purple and green in part because he liked to keep his cars as he bought them, dents and all.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 1, 2026
López says he didn’t recognize the source of the recording at first, but decided to keep it because “I think he wouldn’t have liked this song ... and that gives me peace.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 26, 2026
With Twenty Questions we discovered that no, she was not unhappy about the marriage; yes, she liked Flip very much.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
Klopp has never built his success merely on star names - he has always taken a liking to undervalued and overlooked players.
From BBC β Sep. 23, 2026
Do you tend to hop from one relationship to another, or is liking someone this much really rare for you?
From MarketWatch β Sep. 19, 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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