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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
“Day of the Fight” is an unabashed genre picture that manages to be both the kind of movie they supposedly don’t make like they used to, and also something bracingly fresh.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2024
Why won’t De León make like a tree and get out of here?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022
“Yo, I’ll make, like, a fifteen-dollar profit once I sell this,” he says, all excited.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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