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make like

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  1. see make as if.


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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

There's specific legal claims you can make, like state secrets.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2025

I brought my art school knowledge to it and I didn’t want to make, like, the perfect magazine photograph of the singer at the microphone.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2024

“I’d make like four or five days of Tupperware,” he said.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2022

On the night Mong decided we should bust out we tried to make like everything was perfectly normal.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña