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	sheept 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge sys... "like" has been documented to be a synonym of "such as."[0] [0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/like preposition sense 4
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Animats 11 days ago [–]

That's a neologism. But if it made it into the current Merriam-Webster, it won.

It's not like anybody really thinks Webster's Second International (1937) is definitive any more.

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