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"looks like having" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that seems to be linked or related to something else, often in a way that implies something negative. For example, "The new policy looks like having a negative effect on the company's reputation."
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"It looks like having a device to work at all is hard," Dr. Merkle said.
It looks like having his head shaved was worth it – he's a dead ringer for a young Patrick Stewart.
Now Brazil also looks like having a year of negative growth, with GDP expected by market economists to fall by about 1 per cent.
He already knows what controversy looks like, having been a frat-boy Republican in the alien environment of late-1960's Yale.
First Costinha's woeful backpass puts in Van Nistelrooy, who looks like having a one-on-one with Baia, but dozily allows Costa to block him out.
But if in football terms Ms Murphy looks like having her red card rescinded, the judgment is not a giant-killing that will transform the way fans watch games in British pubs.
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Before removing the blue side fabric, the whole ground didn't look like having special color decoration.
To some, this may look like "having it all".
"We know the rules of what journalists look like have changed a lot," Ms. Steele said.
Chowdry & Sienese (2011) explore what the impacts would have looked like had all eligibles participated in the experiment.
"I thought when he came on it looked like had had never been away.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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