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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

The others range from custom work ordered by customers to spec vehicles that Ghattas decides to make, like the Samurai he customized with his dad, because he can.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2024

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

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2022

If a soul could leave a body, she thought, this is the sound it would make: like the screech of a nail being pulled from old wood.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng