some other
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: a different : another
The main road is closed, so you'll need to find some other way to get there.
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But astute viewers will see some other familiar, and perhaps surprising, rock ‘n’ roll faces in the production.
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Gary Graff, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2025
Its abstraction feels less evasive than connective, demanding engagement with the core fear rather than the distraction of specifics; the threat can no longer be imagined as some specific other — some other government, some other madman.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
And suddenly Aytaç gets wind that Abdi’s been secretly financing this big project for some other guy.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
And while the end result was once again pretty anti-climactic, there were actually some other notable things happening in episode 5 of Survivor 49, so let’s make like Nate and MC on the sandbags and get to work.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
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Gary Graff, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2025
Its abstraction feels less evasive than connective, demanding engagement with the core fear rather than the distraction of specifics; the threat can no longer be imagined as some specific other — some other government, some other madman.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
And suddenly Aytaç gets wind that Abdi’s been secretly financing this big project for some other guy.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
And while the end result was once again pretty anti-climactic, there were actually some other notable things happening in episode 5 of Survivor 49, so let’s make like Nate and MC on the sandbags and get to work.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
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“Some other.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/some%20other. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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