something like
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1
: close to : approximately
It costs something like five dollars.
2
: somewhat or slightly like
He does look something like his father.
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This isn't the first time something like this has happened.
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Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025
What could something like that mean to you?
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 28 Nov. 2025
Trump talks like an isolationist but reverts to something like Reaganite instincts.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
And that’s simply not the case; the far side is something like ~30% more heavily cratered than the near side, a tremendous difference that cannot be quantitatively explained by this gravitational deflection effect.
—Big Think, 26 Nov. 2025
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Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025
What could something like that mean to you?
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 28 Nov. 2025
Trump talks like an isolationist but reverts to something like Reaganite instincts.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
And that’s simply not the case; the far side is something like ~30% more heavily cratered than the near side, a tremendous difference that cannot be quantitatively explained by this gravitational deflection effect.
—Big Think, 26 Nov. 2025
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“Something like.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/something%20like. Accessed 5 Dec. 2025.
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