-like and As though

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As though and -like are semantically related. In some cases you can use "As though" instead a conjunction phrase "-like".

As though conjunction - The way it would be or one would do if.

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-like and as though are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "-like" with "As though", this phrases are similar.

Tempest and Tyrant from the first game are also this, being as though the former is easily the size of a small mountain and has multiple octopus-like arms (that have flamethrowers) and the latter being a huge crab... egg... ship-like thing.

Source: Video Game / Zone of the Enders
It's not so much an alert as it is a weird, machine gun-like sound (alternatively, a sound as though the game were glitching out).

Source: Critical Annoyance
Sweat, blood, and tears also behave as though LCL had air-like density and solvency.

Source: Water Is Air

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