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like

[lahyk] / laɪk /




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“And if critics say that a museum of narrative art is too much like a popcorn movie and not enough like an art film. Well, we love popcorn movies in our family.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

Bryan Mbeumo: A lot of strong runs but, like many Man Utd forwards, nowhere near his best.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

Bond yields reflect where investors expect central bank interest rates to be in the future, as well as other factors like debt sustainability.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

When put to him that the statement sounded like a threat when it involved potentially damaging information, he said: "No, not at all a threat, it's just the reality."

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

I like the rhythm of our days, the journeying.

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

Mary Jo is a decisive and unafraid liker of what she likes, and disliker of what she does not.

From Washington Post 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 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 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 Jan. 17, 2012

So be pleased at once to betake thyself to thy own domain, or anywhere thou likest, so that thou cross my path no more.

From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling

What thing is that that is most likest unto a horse?—R.

From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by J. O. (James Orchard) Halliwell-Phillipps

Nature is always mysterious and secret in the use of her means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin

Make vs to loue him next thee, either as likest our selues, or as thy childe, and therefore our brother, or as one ordayned to bee a member of one selfe same countrie with vs.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

For many, Huang, 63, has become the voice of reason standing up against the scary rhetoric coming from the likes of Anthropic.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

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

Boo is happy when I’m around and she likes Lou Ann a lot.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

As I came up, I liked what was simple.

From Los Angeles Times 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

As a player, Carrick liked to get on the ball and not give it away.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Due to their strained relationship, Dad never liked that he was named after his father.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Do you tend to hop from one relationship to another, or is liking someone this much really rare for you?

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

Social media allowed them to be endlessly self-obsessed, without ever coming around to liking what they see.

From Salon Aug. 30, 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

Penelope had always had a keen liking for poetry.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood




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