like this
idiom
1
: of this kind
I love weather like this.
2
: in this manner
I hate it when it rains like this.
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In one segment of the show, Meghan is seen putting together a crudité platter for tennis champion Naomi Osaka on a round marble lazy Susan, much like this one.
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Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
For Dennis Fipps, a 26-year Navy veteran who performed the two-bell ceremony during the event, gatherings like this can help show how history is relevant today.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2025
Detroit should have the money to make a move like this.
—Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
There were only a few people back then who got that kind of access, like this big character Lisa Robinson who acted like she’d just stepped out of the 1930s.
—Keaton Bell, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2025
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Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
For Dennis Fipps, a 26-year Navy veteran who performed the two-bell ceremony during the event, gatherings like this can help show how history is relevant today.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2025
Detroit should have the money to make a move like this.
—Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
There were only a few people back then who got that kind of access, like this big character Lisa Robinson who acted like she’d just stepped out of the 1930s.
—Keaton Bell, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2025
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“Like this.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/like%20this. Accessed 11 Dec. 2025.
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