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Which singer hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with two singles that both begin with the word "Like"?

like

[lahyk] / laΙͺk /




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Just like vote centers, ballot drop boxes close at 8 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

That’s when I felt like I could let myself have a deep sigh of relief.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

The largest is Kellanova, which focuses on snacks, cereals, noodles and other food products like Eggo, Pringles and Pop-Tarts sold globally.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

As Siwarha moves along its orbit, it may push through the surrounding gas much like a fast boat cutting through water.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

It’s almost beautiful, standing like a statue with blue sky and white clouds layered and stretching behind him.

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

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 am liker to offer battle than accept it, O'Donnell."

From Nuala O'Malley by H. Bedford-Jones

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

From Time ● Jan. 17, 2012

He is a man of merit, an hidalgo by birth, and—whether thou likest or not to hear it, Pedro—a favorite of the king.

From Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa by Frederick Albion Ober

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

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

His suggestion that the soporiferous medicines are likest to do it means that he thinks the delusions of witches subjective and produced by drugs.

From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein

Social media companies have been forced to purge millions of accounts after Australia banned under-16s from the likes of Facebook, TikTok and Reddit last December.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Nobody likes to eat and then not feel good afterwards, right?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Juanita Vallejo, 40, of Edinburg, Texas, said she sees Hinojosa as an “empowered woman,” and likes her firm stances in support of public schools and curtailing data centers.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

He also likes to keep guests on their toes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

That is to say, Nana Dee likes to stand on formality.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

“This negative campaigning is so ugly,” said Shabana Siddiqi, a retired physician who’d initially liked Ramaswamy when he was running for president.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

She explained criminals liked to create a sense of urgency and advised victims against rushing into sending money and instead taking their time to think.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

He also kept it purple and green in part because he liked to keep his cars as he bought them, dents and all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

"You don't need to apologise, you are not wrong," a highly liked comment written in Chinese under the football star's X statement read.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

I didn’t want Traveler to think I liked Oliver—not in the way I liked Traveler.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Blevins’s bad-cop reputation gave his staff leverage: They threatened to call him in if contract terms weren’t to their liking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

These little things also have cute avatars, which you can customize to your liking.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

However, should a potential buyer take a liking to the interior decor elements, there is an option to purchase the property fully furnished for an additional $400,000.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

But, as Stone makes clear in her video content, her definition of liking or even loving a husband is both laborious and ascetic to an extreme.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

“How are you liking your vacation to Asamando?”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer


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