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like

/laɪ̯k/ conjunction B1
  1. As, the way. (colloquial) · 1966, Advertising slogan for Winston cigarettes Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
  2. As if; as though. (colloquial) · It looks like you've finished the project.· It seemed like you didn't care.
  3. Such as. (colloquial) · Why don’t we do something useful like clean the kitchen?
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Thus he came along, supporting himself on a curiously carved stick, his aged countenance lit up with happiness, looking for all the world like one of the aged dandies of 1796, parading the newly opened gardens of the Luxembourg and Tuileries.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 22 · C1
AN ARAB Camel-driver, after completing the loading of his Camel, asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 49 · B2
Not like the wild young men now-a-days, who think of nothing but themselves.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 278 · B2
To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 278 · B2

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