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It seems like McKinley wants to deliver a crushing blow, but then feints at the last minute, opting for a more optimistic kind of fantasy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
"He wasn't able to accelerate on the ball like he wanted to," Davis Cup captain Leon Smith told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Bond yields are going up today—stocks don’t like it. It’s the bond market that’s leading the stock market today and much of this week.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The latest “Human” episode, “I Took a Feminist Into a Tradwife’s Life,” feels like an episode of “Wife Swap.”
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
The other man sets me down on the dirt like I don’t matter at all.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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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
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 ● Jan. 17, 2012
But to begin with—how likest thou that and that?”
From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Bertram Mitford
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
Tell me who is likest this, Poussin or Turner?
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin
“What likest thou best to hear?” asked he, well pleased, for the scop delighted in his art.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
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
“I feel like it’s genre-defying and can appeal to fans of atmospheric stuff and extreme metal, and anyone who likes aggressive music or even just guitar rock.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 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
And even Lowe’s unboosted posts now get more than double the number of likes and views they did before Musk started mentioning and interacting with him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
“After all, everybody likes toast. How could a toaster sub not be friendly?”
From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan
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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
The girl coolly explains that her friend “just liked fires.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
There was no single revelation, just a lot of weeknight pans of mushrooms that gradually got better as I figured out what I liked.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
I liked the intimacy and the rawness of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Many of these were Jews, and these were the visits we both liked best.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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And bringing inflation back down to the Fed’s 2% annual target has been another top focus of his, albeit with too few details for Wall Street’s liking.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 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
I’d probably meet up with a friend and go to the Silverlake Flea Market, which I’ve been really liking recently.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 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 Brontë
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