Embrace and Like

Embrace

Embrace verb - To receive or accept gladly or readily.

Usage example: the exchange student was gratified to be so quickly embraced by people of the small rural community

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Like and embrace are semantically related in wish topic. In some cases you can use "Like" instead a verb "Embrace".

Nearby Words: embraced, embracing

Like verb - To wish to have.

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Embrace and like are semantically related in wish topic. Sometimes you can use "Embrace" instead a verb "Like".

Nearby Words: likely, likeness, liking, liked, likeable

old	old embrace	old like
good	good embrace	good like
alien	alien embrace	alien like
hot	hot embrace	hot like
Other adjectives: less, modern.

character	embrace character	like character
power	embrace power	like power
life	embrace life	like life
sound	embrace sound	like sound
Other words: style, idea, job, men, children, name, fact, way, magic, song, father.

Given that she's perpetually surrounded by warriors who exhibit a very non-warrior-like code, it may well be that she instead chose to embrace the more emotional *

Source: Headscratchers / Teen Titans
On a similar note, writer and world traveller Pico Iyer noted the ironic tendencies of people like him to embrace this trope, just from another angle.

Source: Cultural Posturing
Jehovans did not like Terrans, but Jehovans did not like anyone; and as long as they did not dislike Terrans more than anyone else, Donovan counted that as warm embrace.

Source: Hates Everyone Equally

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