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
“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
And he wanted to make like a sort of Spielberg-esque Charles Dickens-tale film.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024
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
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