make like
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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
Next door, there’s an Italian market that has cheese and guanciale and fresh pasta and they make like five different sandwiches.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2024
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
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
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