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Discover LudwigThe phrase "like affection" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It can be used to describe a feeling or behavior that is similar to the emotion of affection. Example: The way she smiled at him was like affection, making him feel warm and loved.
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"Even like, affection," Chen adds.
"It's not ephemeral or less measurable, like affection".
In addition, the two parties ranked low on trust and other attributes like affection and chemistry.
The feeling is closer to jealousy and resentment than to anything like affection.
That he was able to achieve something like affection on "Hey, Soul Sister" — a reference to his "untrimmed chest" notwithstanding — was a surprise.
He writes of his legitimate political opponents — Bush senior, Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole — not only without rancor but with respect and something like affection.
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There was, says Billington, an almost Lear-like affection (for Cordelia) at play here.
He seems to have found her beautiful, and you sense in his portrayal a Rembrandt-like affection.
A Wynton-like affection for reworking pre-bop jazz forms surfaces on a New Orleans-style blues stomp, with Blanchard delivering sly, corner-of-the-mouth insinuations and high, squealing bleats.
"He liked affection like anybody else.
They are tightly wound, tightly edited blasts of comedy drawn from a Tarantino-like affection for films and filmmakers of the past.
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