like that

phrase

1
: of that kind
I love books like that.
2
: in that manner
Why does she talk like that?

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But they’re endowed with a fundamentally different intelligence, one shaped by a separate evolutionary path and defined by a nervous system that’s distributed throughout their bodies rather than centralized like that of the brains of most animals. Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 29 July 2026 Today’s young people haven’t experienced a financial trauma like that of the 2008 financial crash. Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 28 July 2026 Traits controlled by one gene with two alleles tend not to behave like that. Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 Fraternities could evolve into unions that participate in collective bargaining like that found between the NFL and NFLPA. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 27 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for like that

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“Like that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/like%20that. Accessed 2 Aug. 2026.

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