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like

[lahyk] / laɪk /




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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

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

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

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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