and the like

1. And more of the same, as in John just loves hot dogs, hamburgers, french fries, and the like. [c. 1600]

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But look past this headline heist and you’ll find an everyday criminal reality — namely, that necklaces, brooches, bracelets and the like are stolen from homes and jewelry stores all the time.

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When I add all the other expenses like medical, food, utilities, gasoline, insurance and the like, my monthly income doesn’t cover them.

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The average endowment is far more diversified than a stock-and-bond portfolio, for example, with more than 50% currently allocated to so-called alternative investments — private equity, venture capital, real estate and the like.

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The current mania for supercomputers, AI, superintelligence and the like is driven by the availability of cheap energy, mostly afforded by fossil fuels.

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And yet, in Matsumoto’s depiction of the modern era, the proliferation of numbers, letters, timelines and the like suggests that homicide is less a human tragedy than a mathematical problem that must be solved.

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