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In his proof of the irrationality of 
$\zeta (3)$ and 
$\zeta (2)$, Apéry defined two integer sequences through 
$3$-term recurrences, which are known as the famous Apéry numbers. Zagier, Almkvist–Zudilin, and Cooper successively introduced the other 
$13$ sporadic sequences through variants of Apéry’s 
$3$-term recurrences. All of the 
$15$ sporadic sequences are called Apéry-like sequences. Motivated by Gessel’s congruences mod 
$24$ for the Apéry numbers, we investigate congruences of the form 
$u_n\equiv \alpha ^n \ \pmod {N_{\alpha }}~(\alpha \in \mathbb {Z},N_{\alpha }\in \mathbb {N}^{+})$ for all of the 
$15$ Apéry-like sequences 
$\{u_n\}_{n\ge 0}$. Let 
$N_{\alpha }$ be the largest positive integer such that 
$u_n\equiv \alpha ^n\ \pmod {N_{\alpha }}$ for all non-negative integers n. We determine the values of 
$\max \{N_{\alpha }|\alpha \in \mathbb {Z}\}$ for all of the 
$15$ Apéry-like sequences 
$\{u_n\}_{n\ge 0}$. The binomial transforms of Apéry-like sequences provide us a unified approach to this type of congruences for Apéry-like sequences.
