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[lahyk] / laɪk /




ADVERB
for instance
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“Long term, none of us can ever predict with any certainty what it’s going to look like. We can just appreciate that it’s going to be different.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

"It's awful, you can't even imagine what it's like. My family are not getting any answers," she said.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

“My vision for them is for them to change what pop music can look like. I think Cameron’s a pop artist as I think Bob Dylan was a pop artist.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

British energy secretary Ed Miliband told AFP "that's what this COP process is like. You look over the long sweep of history -- it had delivered change."

From Barron's • Nov. 22, 2025

“They don’t think about other injustices. They hear about Malala and assume that’s what all of Pakistan is like. That it’s filled with poor people in villages, and terrorists who are going around shooting them.”

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan




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