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It doesn’t seem like the Dodgers are ready to put Ohtani on the injured list just yet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The technology industry, in particular, has been beset by layoffs in recent months from companies like Amazon and Meta, with thousands losing their jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"My fear is that if we didn't give them something like Cyber Choices, where would they get that input and where would that input take them?"
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The doctor millions trusted through the pandemic risked looking like a man with something to hide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
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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
Some context: Wesley Britt, the tweet liker, is married to Katie Britt, who is running against several other Republicans in the Alabama primary for this year’s midterm elections.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2022
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
We thought that steam-coaches generally followed the directing of no hand except the "stoker's;" but it certainly is always much liker a raven than a dove.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
Mercy, Shakespeare wrote, "Earthly power doth then show likest God's/ When mercy seasons justice."
From Time ● Jan. 17, 2012
I thank thee, Annie; I thank thee, Annie;55 Sae dearly as I thank thee; You're the likest to my sister Annie, That ever I did see.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
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
If thou likest to bring thy wife to Tarnghyll, where we are sheltering for the present, she and the little ones will be much safer, and thy wife Eadburgh will be useful to Lady Ethel.
From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John
I look back with something which is akin to pity on the vain child who thought fine clothes and array the likest to enhance the fair face and form which maybe God has given me.
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma
But not everyone likes disappearing off into fictional worlds.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Materne likes the stock because it has an intriguing AI narrative and some technical momentum.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
That doesn’t mean he won’t ever return to the horror genre, which he still likes and tries to keep up with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Megan Romer likes to spend her free time sewing costumes for school plays, picking blackberries in her backyard in rural Cayuga County, N.Y., and watching her partner play the fiddle in folk bands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
I’ve already replaced the fern in my room twice, and it seems Mr. Harris’s plant likes me about the same as the ferns do.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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The physicists liked physical models, and economists liked linear models, so machine learning didn’t fit cleanly into either camp and was viewed with suspicion.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
“It felt disappointing because I liked him, but relieving because he wasn’t going to be a good partner,” Vlasova said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Kate said when guests started arriving she thought about local venues she liked.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
We liked working together, and he saw that we had a similar wavelength, and he just kind of tossed it up, like, ‘Hey, how would you feel about scoring a feature?’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
He had slipped easily into the part of being a younger brother to Peter— mostly, I think, because he genuinely liked having an older brother of his own, a proper pal.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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Even though consumer spending on the vehicles has ramped up, Michalek said, “it’s not that people started liking electric vehicles more. ... It’s because electric vehicles kept getting better and cheaper.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Bake for another 7 to 10 minutes, until the egg whites are set and the yolks are cooked to your liking.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Who knows? Maybe their parents might end up liking this too.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Unofficial poll time: How are you liking the World Cup now?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
“Of course I do! It’s just I’m not liking any of the options.”
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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