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"Like it never worked before"
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"Like it never worked before"
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The phrase "like it never worked before" is an example of an idiomatic construction that means "better than it ever had."
You can use this construction with many verbs:
They ran as they had never run before to get home before dark.
He closed his eyes and played as he never had before.
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