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Idioms  

1. Also, liked to. Come close to, be on the point of. For example, We like to froze to death, or He liked to have never got away. This expression, now considered a colloquialism from the American South, dates from the early 1400s and was used several times by Shakespeare.

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What’s it been like to see those efforts succeed to some degree?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

“We haven’t cracked the code on how to be successful to the level we’d like to in the wireless business,” Ergen said on an earnings call earlier this month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

So, the S&P 500’s chart is bullish, but we are not getting the agreement from internal indicators that we’d like to see.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

The travel company said: "We would like to reiterate how sorry we are about this incident."

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

None of us had, and it wasn’t the first time I wondered what it would be like to have a life other than this one.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin