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"It's about all the parents, who are trying to provide the best for their children, and all the sacrifices that they make, like my parents did," he says.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Medicare Advantage plans are supposed to make like life easier for retirees by bundling all their healthcare needs together.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
“I'm going to have to explore more digital and delivery avenues. I'm going to obviously have to make, like any smaller-business owner, harder choices around big capital expenditures.”
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2024
Insane workout regimens and upbeat training montages ensue: Chang doesn’t have to make like Michael B. Jordan in “Creed III” and drag an airplane, though he does, in time, become a bench-pressing, box-jumping, protein-shake-chugging monster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
It was the threat that frightened us, their fearful looks, and the noises they would make, like miniature Samurai, in a language we couldn’t understand.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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