make like
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Usually I order food from my cook when I’m at home and she’ll make like a week’s worth of food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
"It's about all the parents, who are trying to provide the best for their children, and all the sacrifices that they make, like my parents did," he says.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
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
“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
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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