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"text": "They are like their parents in this respect.",
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"ref": "1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest",
"text": "She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.",
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "be similar to something",
"word": "gelijk zijn"
},
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"sense": "be similar to something",
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"sense": "be similar to something",
"word": "비슷하다"
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"word": "rávall"
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"text": "If he's like “I don't want to”, then be like “Pretty please! – It means a lot to me”.",
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"ref": "1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Dionne (Stacey Dash)",
"text": "This weekend he called me up and he's all “Where were you today?” and I'm like “I'm at my Grandmother's house”…",
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"ref": "2012, Mike Lacher, On the Bro'd: A Parody of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, page 71",
"text": "A lotta times I grabbed bags of frozen chicken nuggets to take home. “You know what they say,” Ricky would be like. “Dude's gotta have nugs.”",
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"word": "be all"
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"word": "be all like"
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"text": "She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.",
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"text": "If he's like “I don't want to”, then be like “Pretty please! – It means a lot to me”.",
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"ref": "1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Dionne (Stacey Dash)",
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},
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"ref": "2012, Mike Lacher, On the Bro'd: A Parody of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, page 71",
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"(informal, idiomatic, chiefly US, MLE and Internet slang) To say."
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "be similar to something",
"word": "gelijk zijn"
},
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"sense": "be similar to something",
"word": "olyan, mint"
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"lang": "Korean",
"sense": "be similar to something",
"word": "비슷하다"
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"sense": "be similar to something",
"word": "닮다"
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"sense": "be typical or characteristic of",
"word": "rávall"
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"sense": "be typical or characteristic of",
"word": "jellemző"
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