like this

phrase

1
: of this kind
I love weather like this.
2
: in this manner
I hate it when it rains like this.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Washington hasn’t seen a race like this since Thomas Jefferson helped mark America’s 25th birthday on July 4, 1801. — ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026 Golf did something like this with the FedEx Cup and more exposure is good for all of us in the game. — Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026 One of those styles is brown loafers, like this Franco Sarto pair. — Isabel Bekele, InStyle, 5 Aug. 2026 According to Mary Lovely, an economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), there are other anecdotes like this one. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for like this

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