My hanging arms became like a cushion for my head.
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It became like, well, either save it or destroy it.
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He became like a fountain, something we could not stop.
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"It became, like, why aren't we just doing it?" said Persichetti.
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The section half of the record became like, 'Who am I?
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That became like a full-time job, and it paid off.
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The tour was 45 days, so we all became like one.
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The three puppeteers and the horse became like a synchronized being.
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But it quickly became like no other case Acton had tried.
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Ms. Toe said Ms. Yawo became like a mother to her.
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It became like an art experiment and it was less about hair.
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Meanwhile, Scerra provided encouragement and assistance, and became like family to Scarberry.
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And that's when we definitely became like a family, the band fam.
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"The idea was they became like statues," Mr. Jones told Vogue beforehand.
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And it became like a Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday thing, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
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"It became like a domino effect," said Owens, who died in 2012.
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And, you know, you became like a sex symbol for women over 40.
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In related news, Dean just became, like, three times more attractive to me.
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She got all of my big action scenes and she became like Alice.
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Florence, usually a hit among tourists, became "like a ghost town" seemingly overnight.
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We became like a family and we started to figure out the script together.
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The other members "became like family," says Stephanie, 46, a stay-at-home mom.
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The door clicked open, and the weight of my desire became like an electric current.
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When I entered, and they recognized that I was a Jew, they became like beasts.
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"It became like any other airline," said Robert Mann, an aviation analyst and industry veteran.
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"This area became like a Wild West," one local agent told the local news site.
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"It became like choreography," Rudd said in a recent interview with The New York Times.
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So I think the room where they kept the diazo machine became like my studio.
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It was so maddening, and then, after a little while, I became like everyone else.
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Capital Q Day after day, we became like a family because of many situations that happened.
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"It became like a game, like a crossword," he explained to La Nouvelle Critique in 1973.
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To see that little guy floating around -- I have pets and he became like our pet.
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As we started writing it, it became like, I'm not letting myself do any of that.
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That boss, Donald said, later became "like a father," helping him progress up the ranks at Monsanto.
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We wind up talking about how Brutalism became like a moment for them all to hit reset.
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They launched into a song and the crowd became like one organism, lurching forward then falling back.
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"Maybe life here was very harsh to them (old migrants) so they became like this," he mused.
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You became like one of the favorite designers of big musicians like Kanye West, and for celebrities.
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We got rid of that and became like the rest of the states and we lost growth.
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Slackbot became like a "familiar" in a video game: a non-player character that explains the world.
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It became like a kind of cult image, and many people have had it tattooed on them.
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We didn't always agree on policy specifics, but we trusted one another, and we became like family.
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Together, we became like a force of nature, dominating every space we entered with flurries of femininity.
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"We became — and I especially, in the first couple of days — became like trauma keepers," she said.
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" Cortese, very much in her third trimester, agreed, adding, "I feel like we became like a real family.
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To hear him tell it, he became like Dragon Ball protagonist Goku, roaming the countryside looking for competition.
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It became like a form of OCD that I'd waste hours on—not meditative prayer, but anxious fiddling.
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Her remarks became like theatre for the other patients and staff as they waited to see my response.
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As the years went by, it became like a drug – the quickest way for her to feel validated.
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The belief that I was somehow bad or broken became like smoke, exiting my body with every exhale.
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Suddenly, Kodachrome became like a call for Americans to get in the car and tour the country taking pictures.
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It became like a person, so through that character, I improved my career; it was like a constant evolution.
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Slowly but surely in my mind, it became like, man, we have to tell people what she was like.
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When that influx happened in the Great Migration and this demographic change, it became like black and white flight.
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And I mean filters plus social plus basically a Twitter feed of photos, it became like a thing overnight.
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With a student body eager for moments of healing and goodness, it's no wonder the dogs quickly became like family.
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The Kaepernick mural became like a Medusa head: After the one mural was destroyed, Williams ended up painting nine more.
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The daily life, the anxiety, the lazy eye — they all became like metaphors to be able to tell that story.
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" Jovovich added, "[Rodriguez] got all of my big action scenes and she became like Alice," while "Alice became this tagalong.
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"She became like a mother to a lot of kids," Calhoun Community High School, Tara Egnatuk, told The Lansing Journal.
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His gender identity and expression, and even his sexual orientation, became like a series of different costumes for different roles.
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I lost my mom to cancer in 2007, so Joy really became like a mother or grandmother figure to me.
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What was local knowledge gradually faded, until the films underground became like graves of people once loved and then forgotten.
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Dr. Hawking also made yearly visits to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, which became like a second home.
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So it became like a game of queer chicken, trying to find the balance between my identity and his sexuality.
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The close-knit cast quickly became like family, and Denberg says she still feels maternal toward her former co-stars.
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What's happening here is Kim Jong Un and his younger sister became like top celebrities in this country (South Korea).
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Typing on the KeyOne became like pulling down the arm on a slot machine compared to tapping a button to spin.
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"She's such a great wit and the restaurant crew became like family, we would go and get wine together," says LoSurdo.
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"It became like a hobby for me—whenever I go somewhere, I just go and visit the Gülen school," he said.
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I was super interested in working on Shakespeare and then it became like, oh, this could be a thing that I do.
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Over the years, these scientists became like a platoon that could get itself behind enemy lines, only to find itself without weapons.
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Etta Mae and Ike soon moved into the third floor of the Harpers' white house, and the two households became like one.
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You were getting really good at making these flutes, you took them everywhere, your friends had so many, it became like your thing.
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He would begin his comments slowly, developing his theme and raising the emotional heat until it became like a sermon from the pulpit.
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Decades ago, my parents, immigrants from the Dominican Republic, overstayed their visas, and became like so many others before and after them, undocumented.
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And then it became like one minute, and then it became 30 seconds, and nowadays sometimes there's no intro, the song will just start.
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And so much more on the internet became like a game, only the score consisted of attention, outrage or approval from like-minded trolls.
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When he comes across a cure that works, he is unnerved: "I became like a man scared of himself, yet undaunted by the morning."
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The way that I describe the difference between what we're doing and what Wattpad is doing is, essentially, Wattpad became like YouTube for writing.
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Mr. Cooper's boat, which made several runs ferrying Marines of the Second Division from ships offshore, became, like others, stranded on a coral reef.
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Rubio, by contrast, became like a weak, gutted, bizarro Trump, with all the weird venom and none of the confidence or successful self-promotion.
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And he played me 'Shake It Off,' and so it became like my anthem, like how to just overcome this not-so-great moment.
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"He took my Roadster, installed sound installation, made a couple of other changes and it became like a different car," Vaskevitch said in an interview.
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It became like a game: Over the second half of the week, I tried to spend as little as possible to avoid exceeding my goal.
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He had become so used to having a little bit of blood in his urine every few months, so it became like nothing to him.
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And so Ford's hearing became, like Hill's, a referendum on her character and credibility rather than a real effort to gather and consider all the facts.
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The suspected mail bomber lived in a van covered with pro-Trump stickers; his family said that Trump became like "a stand-in father" to him.
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Zarin had originally suggested Frankel to the casting crew, and their friendship grew on the show until they became like a reality version of Lucy and Ethel.
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But when I started to fly it became, like the roundness of the earth, the sort of fact I came to really feel as well as know.
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It stems from the hours she spent rifling through her step-father's huge stockpile of CDs, which became like a mini, free record store in the house.
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With a security wall that quickly became like Swiss cheese, machines on both sides were still vulnerable to infection and the antivirus industry emerged to protect them.
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Pratt's chemotherapy took over a year, and because she spent so much time at Children's Minnesota in St. Paul, the hospital staff became like family to her.
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An analysis by Jonathan Rothwell finds that if the most restrictive cities became like the least restrictive, the inequality between different neighborhoods would be cut in half.
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As an only child, she said she was grateful for a chance to spend time with the TV family who became like surrogate siblings in her real life.
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Suddenly, a machine in my hand and the ability to dance on the street, in and out of crowds of people, became like a magical medium for me.
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The big picture: "These companies became like great big record labels: reliant on talent spotters going out and finding new artists," SVB Leerink analyst Geoffrey Porges tells Fortune.
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I abandoned the dance floor and lighthearted Terpsichore and became like one of the lesser Greek goddesses who tends the hearth and no one knows her name. Hestia?
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It was a package deal we called WinTel, and the term "Pentium" became like Q-Tip – a brand name so powerful that it became synonymous with the whole category.
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The difficulties of coordinating his Thanksgiving and Christmas travel plans with family amid the unknowns of the impeachment battle, he said, "somehow became like a metaphor" fueling his decision.
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I learned all about how a short tour became like summer camp, as well as how working and having fun and traveling and all that good stuff can actually exist harmoniously.
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She had night terrors and became like a "walking zombie" during the day, according to her family and her doctor, rarely showing the warm smile she had once been known for.
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It was at the moment where I thought all was lost and the movie was total shit that someone flipped the "good" switch on, and it became like a whole different movie.
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The orchestra and chorus, each divided into two groups, as Bach stipulated, here became like combating forces in a searing story of faith and doubt, trust and betrayal, community and mob chaos.
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Flint and lead poisoning: Living with it and uncertainty, long-term "It just became like second nature to come in and start unscrewing caps and doing whatever you had to do," she said.
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"It reached the absurd point that the state became like a car or apartment that they could give to their kids," says Ghassan Salamé, professor emeritus at Sciences Po, a university in Paris.
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"People are used to dealing with tourists and taking photos, I think it became like a challenge to make their graves prettier or make an extra effort to make it nicer," says Alonso.
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And it almost became like a pilot every episode because there were brand-new sets that all had to be designed and built, and that was perhaps the most challenging aspect of it.
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Brett Veach, the Chiefs' general manager, said watching the Mahomes practice tape became "like a phenomenon" at training camp, with coaches and executives running back to the team's dormitories to get a peek.
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It almost became like an inner-child experience for a lot of these people, an alter ego — to go out, cover their faces and become this character and truly have fun with it.
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"I would add a thing here or there and it sort of just became like a self-portrait in a way, or like a manifestation of the things that make me happy," Gray says.
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And you can't think about that without shouting out SBTV, the YouTube channel that became like a digital younger sibling to Rooney Keefe or Jammer's respective Risky Roadz and Lord of the Mics DVDs.
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"Every night before bed he would say, 'You can do anything you set your mind to' and he said it so often it eventually became like a bromide, like 'finish your vegetables'," Weiner says.
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The number 100 became like breaths in meditation; I couldn't hold complex thoughts on top of counting, so deeper emotions surfaced, specifically love and appreciation for the small person I was holding and touching.
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How there was a certain point when you were no longer what you were; when you became like the largest animal that ever existed—and no one, no one , could fuck with you. ♦
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Sean Spicer, the White House's first press secretary, held the briefings regularly, but within the span of a few months it became like watching a car crash in slow motion -- over and over again.
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She became like Yoda after he died, acquiring the privilege of metaphysicality, just appearing, oh, here and there, as a hologram; you see, at a certain point Florence stopped coming in for her Tuesday shift.
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"When you think about the trauma that John had, it's not just his father's assassination, it's his uncle [RFK] who became like a father figure, and then Aristotle Onassis, who was his stepfather," Gillon says.
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"It would be a shame if America became like a big Oberlin College: where you're never supposed to see or hear anything that might bother you," tweeted Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor for National Review.
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By the second week, they were each given a Kalashnikov assault rifle and told to sleep with it between their legs until it became "like a third arm," he said, according to his interrogation transcript.
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Sean Spicer, the Trump White House's first press secretary, held the briefings regularly, but within the span of a few months it became like watching a car crash in slow motion over and over again.
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He and his brother Alphonso became like the Gamble and Huff of Blue Note Records for much of the 1970s, producing a small harvest of catchy crossover albums by Humphrey and the trumpeter Donald Byrd.
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When I sorted out that the ax (not the flower) is for chopping, I became like Once-ler in "The Lorax" — hacking away at the old-growth beauties and shipping the fragments off for profits.
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It kind of became like a dirty word to say 'romantic comedy,' but I think it's really important to own that word if that's what your movie is, and reclaim it as something that's not tacky.
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I soon became like the veteran waitresses I had worked with before: I trained the new hires, I headed up the close-outs at the end of the night, I pushed people who were in my way.
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"We spent so many hours together with the kids, and I sort of became like a second mother to them," Henderson told PEOPLE in June on the set of Breaking Bread with Brooke Burke airing on Feeln.
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When AzSwaye and his family moved from South Central to Lancaster, a defense industry outpost in the vast Mojave Desert, they became, like hundreds of thousands of others, part of a wave of migration reshaping Los Angeles.
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A lot of it became like the Free Speech Movement and some of the other things that we saw across campuses in the '60s, which is where everybody thinks the birth of radicalism in the US was.
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Brunning told the West Australian that she didn&apost realize she shouldn't hand feed a shark, until the animal became "like a Hoover," sucking her right index finger into its mouth full of rows of razor-sharp teeth.
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Diana wore the necklace several times after her great bandeau moment and it became — like the Cambridge Lovers Knot tiara — one of the pieces most associated with her, even if it technically was a loan from the Queen.
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Without Twitter's collective schadenfreude, or the high-wire danger of larger-scale productions, the live "She Loves Me" became like the musical cigarette box in the show itself — more important as a symbol than as an actual product.
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He was invited by two Iraqi men into a house where the dead were awaiting burial; his photographs of shrouded human forms lined up on the floor became, like his Hell House photos the year before, iconic images of the war.
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Ms. Tonks's sister, Mynda Smith, offered to serve Thanksgiving dinner at her Las Vegas home, and the guest list swelled to 30 people: a brother from Salt Lake City, friends, family and onetime strangers who became like family after the shooting.
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"But this year, it became like a god of Go." Perhaps just as notably, the victory took place in China, a rising power in the field of artificial intelligence that is increasingly seen as a rival to the United States.
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"Something happened to me when I turned 30 where I just stopped being able to lie, as well as the fact that life broke me...so my standup just became like a giant journal entry of my failures and weaknesses," she says.
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I suppose that, through long exposure to stimuli that are unpleasant, but not too unpleasant, I became like one of his horses, broken into making the decision to like his work, as an option less difficult than making the decision to dislike it.
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For years, most meteorologists and climate scientists would answer that question with a disclaimer, one that was repeated so often it became like a mantra: It is not possible to attribute individual weather events like storms, heat waves or droughts to climate change.
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Top executives of New York-based hedge fund manager Platinum Partners were arrested on Monday and charged with running an approximately $1 billion fraud that federal prosecutors said became "like a Ponzi scheme" as its largest investments lost much of their value.
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He told CNBC last year about a "Every night before bed he would say, 'You can do anything you set your mind to' and he said it so often it eventually became like a bromide, like 'finish your vegetables'," Weiner said in 2017.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top executives of New York-based hedge fund manager Platinum Partners were arrested on Monday and charged with running an approximately $163 billion fraud that federal prosecutors said became "like a Ponzi scheme" as its largest investments lost much of their value.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top executives of New York-based hedge fund manager Platinum Partners were arrested on Monday and charged with running a $1 billion fraud that federal prosecutors said became "like a Ponzi scheme" as its largest investments lost much of their value.
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But for all the historic echoes, the day soon became like any other in the Trump era when mind-bending debates erupted over the nature of basic facts and ill will between the parties clogged Congress' most basic duty -- holding a President to account.
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Lauren – who is now 16 and was born less than three months after 9/11 – and her two older siblings, Caitlyn, 22, and Donald Jr., 133, became like surrogate children to their father's surviving fellow officers, and Lauren is comforted by his final act of bravery.
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While it may seem like a technicality to people who have not been through it, that little black box on those applications became like another kind of cell for me, and it took me ten years of living a lie before I decided to fight back.
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According to the press release, Bill Clinton said Flores became like a member of the family through his "devotion and steadfast service," including duties ranging from decorating the Christmas tree, preserving family heirlooms during a flood and taking care of the former president during his quadruple bypass surgery.
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Johnson once noted that he was working under the star of Isaac Babel while writing "Jesus' Son," and it showed; just as Babel saw (for example) the Russian sunset as others had not previously, Johnson transformed his misfits and heroin addicts until they became like protagonists from the time of epics.
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The occasion was happily historic, for a reason we scarcely need recall: "White Christmas" and Mr. Crosby became like "God Bless America" and Kate Smith—so much so, indeed, that the notion of starring Mr. Crosby in a film that would have the title "White Christmas" was broached as long as six years ago.
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