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Pronunciation
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Meanings
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For example.
Waterbirds, such as the duck or the gull, are common in the area.
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […]”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
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Like, of the kind mentioned.
[…] the benighted stranger […] might have easily […] mistaken the hospitable mansion for a good, old-fashioned inn, such as have faded from this earth since the last mail coach and prancing tits took their last melancholy journey to the knacker's yard.
1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret:I was never in a country such as that.
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:A plan such as you propose will never succeed.
Synonyms
like (for example) · e.g. (for example) · for instance (for example) · for example (for example)
Translations (30)
dng зущён (like) · ro ca (like) · ka ისეთივე როგორც (like) · ar هَكَذَا (like) · arz كدا (like) · fi kaltainen (like) · hu olyan…, mint/amilyen (like) · nl zoals (like) · cmn 諸如 /诸如 (like) · es como (like) · it come (like) · tr örneğin (like) · pt como (like) · he כְּגוֹן (like) · fr comme (like) · ru как (like) · grc οἷος (like) · ka მსგავს (like) · ru тако́й ... как (like) · vec come (like) · bg като (like) · arz زي كدا (like) · tr gibi (like) · ru тако́й как (like) · fi lainen (like) · eo kiel (like) · ru как наприме́р (like) · de wie (like) · ca com ara (like) · el όπως (like)