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like

[lahyk] / laɪk /




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And finally, with the SEC opening the door to tokenized equities, they explain what it means for stocks to be traded like crypto—and why AMC is beefing with Robinhood over it.

From Slate Sep. 19, 2026

“Everything felt heavy, unclear, and like it was falling apart at the same time. I wouldn’t wish this season on anyone.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

“I felt like someone with a superpower and didn’t know where to put it.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

A.I. fears reach a fever pitch, Kevin Warsh votes to raise rates, and the SEC allows stocks to trade like crypto.

From Slate Sep. 19, 2026

“Seems like I ought to help. Become a land rush man. Set aside my guns. California and the Pacific Ocean aren’t going anywhere.”

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

He was far liker a cat; cared little or nothing for men, with whom he merely co-existed as we do with cattle, and was entirely devoted to the art of poaching.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mercy, Shakespeare wrote, "Earthly power doth then show likest God's/ When mercy seasons justice."

From Time Jan. 17, 2012

"Tha likest me, doesna ta?" he asked softly.

From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Indade, thin, I couldn't be sayin' whidder it's likest the masther or the misthress he is.

From Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Hast thou another lover, To make the time pass over, Whom thou likest more than me?

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Miriam Levin-Gold likes Prime Minister Mark Carney's idea of Canadians being able to live and work in the European Union under proposed closer ties with the trade bloc.

From BBC 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

When Judy Collins comes to Los Angeles, she likes to stay at the Beverly Hilton in part because “they serve a fabulous breakfast,” she says over coffee at the hotel on a recent morning.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

“Somebody likes somebody,” Luisa whispers, licking whipped cream off a plastic spoon.

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

“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

“South Park” has always liked food for this reason.

From Salon Sep. 18, 2026

We haven't got as many points as we would have liked at this point, for sure.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

I could have asked what books he liked to read, or if he played video games.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

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

A mistake many people make, Bobby says, is thinking that really, really liking someone should supersede whatever challenges they might face.

From MarketWatch Aug. 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

The players took a liking to the name, and the rest is history.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Over time, however, Spain’s collective power, influence, and force supplanted many of the local spiritual traditions, which were transformed to the Spaniards’ liking.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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