like-minded
to have similar opinions
TRANSLATION
like-minded = gleichgesinnt --- GOOGLE INDEX like-minded: approximately 3,800,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"The Internet can be a place to find friendship and LIKE-MINDED people to chat to, but sometimes it can also be harmful," said Catherine Johnstone, Samaritans' chief executive.
(BBC News)
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President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were so LIKE-MINDED, according to one Los Angeles Times writer, that they brought new meaning to the U.S. and England’s special relationship.
(Forbes magazine)
(BBC News)
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President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were so LIKE-MINDED, according to one Los Angeles Times writer, that they brought new meaning to the U.S. and England’s special relationship.
(Forbes magazine)
Did you
know?
like-minded
adjective
- People who are described as like-minded share the same opinions, ideas or interests
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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When searching for the word "like", Google returns more than 2.3 billion hits. While there is no definitive list of the most commonly used words, most experts rank "like" somewhere in the top 50.
Like is truly a useful word. It can be used to compare similar things (He has a car like mine) or dissimilar things (He is acting like a child). Or it can be a verb that describes a preference or fondness for something (I like pizza. Bob really likes Helen).
It is also applied in so-called subordinating conjunctions instead of the words "as if": (He looks like he is ready to go home). In the U.S. in 1954, a famous ad campaign for Winston cigarettes introduced the slogan "Winston tastes good — LIKE a cigarette should." The slogan was criticised by some as being improper English. Winston then came up with another ad featuring a woman who insists the sentence ought to be "Winston tastes good as a cigarette should". Happy cigarette smokers then shout back at her, "What do you want — good grammar or good taste?"
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Having like-minded people on the team is nice, but it sometimes limits our creativity."
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adjective
- People who are described as like-minded share the same opinions, ideas or interests
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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When searching for the word "like", Google returns more than 2.3 billion hits. While there is no definitive list of the most commonly used words, most experts rank "like" somewhere in the top 50.
Like is truly a useful word. It can be used to compare similar things (He has a car like mine) or dissimilar things (He is acting like a child). Or it can be a verb that describes a preference or fondness for something (I like pizza. Bob really likes Helen).
It is also applied in so-called subordinating conjunctions instead of the words "as if": (He looks like he is ready to go home). In the U.S. in 1954, a famous ad campaign for Winston cigarettes introduced the slogan "Winston tastes good — LIKE a cigarette should." The slogan was criticised by some as being improper English. Winston then came up with another ad featuring a woman who insists the sentence ought to be "Winston tastes good as a cigarette should". Happy cigarette smokers then shout back at her, "What do you want — good grammar or good taste?"
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Having like-minded people on the team is nice, but it sometimes limits our creativity."
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