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like

[lahyk] / laɪk /




ADVERB
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Still, like Ramsey, Araujo’s gift is his voice.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

The vice president’s words sound good — like a rap on the knuckles of the tech billionaires who can’t stop claiming they’re building doomsday devices.

From Salon Sep. 20, 2026

Skaith pointed to the so-called "White Rose Agreement", signed by himself and the mayors of South and West Yorkshire, pledging to work closer on things like transport.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

“But, for sure, now we have a whole wave of small customers who no longer have that option available and would like to leverage ours. And we’re more than happy to help if we can.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 20, 2026

She makes friends easily, and while her routine includes activities like church, school, and volunteerism, she is also incredibly social.

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 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

And twice that morning, reporters asked him if he himself was the liker.

From Washington Post Sep. 12, 2017

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

Earthly power doth then show likest gods, When mercy seasons justice.

From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement

Between both thy hands, the right sometimes supporting, and the left afflicting, fashion us to that frame of Piety thou likest best.

From Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings by King of England Charles I

What other children were he was; If more, ’twas not to mortal ken; The being likest to mankind Made him the man of men.

From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various

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

Kaminetsky likes to talk as if she’s a personal shopper.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

He comes to the Sunday market “whenever I have a chance,” because he likes the food and music.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 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

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

It’s the chewy chocolate chip peanut butter kind Avery likes best.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

“Bond yields fell yesterday—stocks liked it,” said Bob Doll, chief investment officer at Crossmark Global Investments.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

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

I grew up honestly believing that the point to life was to be liked by other people and to get other people’s approval.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 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

Karli liked to touch it with his fingertips.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

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

Menus are now less transparent by default, and a slider in Settings > Appearance > Liquid Glass lets you adjust the opacity to your liking.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 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

Joked McDaniel: “For fantasy owners out there, if you’re not liking your output, you have Max to blame.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

I’d never thought of anyone besides our parents, Fern, and once, Uncle D, really and truly liking Vonetta.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia




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