But Facebook, or Wave, or something very like them, could be the future of work.
The most he heard, from sonar echoes in 1997, was very like a whale.
Intellectual property can seem very like real property, especially when it is yours, and not some faceless corporation's.
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The allegation about Samsung is not that they made a toaster that looked very like an Apple iPhone.
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It is 70% larger than the Earth and orbits Kepler 69 once every 242 days -- very like Venus.
Japan faces tough internal choices, very like those that many European countries have grappled with, and are grappling with still.
Indeed, the workplace revolution that lies ahead may be very like the one that, in the course of the 1970s and 1980s, brought millions of mothers into the job market.
Just as an example, I can go out and make and sell as many chocolate cakes as I wish that look very like an iPhone (with iPads for parties perhaps?).
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Otherwise the terms are very like the Commerce one.
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It used to be that Wall Street was functioning on the basic idea that financial events were subject to something very like a normal distribution, also known as a bell curve.
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You cannot trade weather, so the next best thing is to trade something that behaves very like it: gas (as it happens, gas prices, which according to Enron are closely correlated with temperature).
They show that warming spells very like that of the past 100 years occurred repeatedly, long before the large-scale use of fossil fuels and the associated emissions of carbon dioxide gas were a possible factor.
And indeed, Mr Howard's decision to schedule his election for a month before the American presidential one looks very like an attempt to avoid momentum building up behind the dumping of warriors, in the entirely plausible event that George Bush loses.
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This has mirrored progress in fields as diverse as speech recognition and credit-card fraud detection, where modern techniques combined with a continuing explosion in computer power have made possible behaviour that seems very like human intelligence, albeit limited to a specific domain.
Comments on the tree-ring section of the IPCC's latest report by John Mitchell, director of climate science at Britain's Met Office, raise issues very like those highlighted by perhaps the most prominent critic of the hockey stick, Steve McIntyre, who runs a blog called Climate Audit.
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Now investors like David Einhorn would very much like Apple to distribute that cash to shareholders as dividends.
But this guy has a business degree, and it sounds like he viewed this very much like a business.
Correa began to back off from his authoritarian policies, not like a hero but very much like a coward.
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Ultimately, an experience like a stay in a Kyoto ryokan is very much like a stay in an upscale lodge in the Okavango delta: a total experience for the mind and the senses.
You can make the instrument very much like an existing instrument or you can make it very different.
It's very much like California where much of the area is conservative, but you have Madison and you have Milwaukee just like you have San Francisco and you have LA and it's very union, very blue collar, very left wing.
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Last fall he was ready to unveil it as a 288-satellite system very much like Iridium.
Invented in a pub in the 1970s, toe wrestling plays out very much like a traditional arm-wrestling match.
Craig stood before a microphone and made what sounded very much like a resignation speech.
The weather was perfect, not very hot like last year, but not too cold either.
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In terms of hardware, MiiPC looks and feels very much like a finished product.
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But when it comes to their vote, they vote very much like their elders.
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