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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Burnett’s palm-treed ironic paradise achieves something like Agnès Varda’s gentle blend of reality and artifice — sophistication.
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Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025
There’s something like six tons of it dispersed as small fuel particles.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 June 2025
The results were better than expected, but there are still reasons to avoid buying something like that.
—ArsTechnica, 24 June 2025
Smil calculates that to grow just one per cent of the globe’s current meat output would require something like a hundred times the bioreactor capacity of the world’s entire pharmaceutical industry.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025
There’s something like six tons of it dispersed as small fuel particles.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 June 2025
The results were better than expected, but there are still reasons to avoid buying something like that.
—ArsTechnica, 24 June 2025
Smil calculates that to grow just one per cent of the globe’s current meat output would require something like a hundred times the bioreactor capacity of the world’s entire pharmaceutical industry.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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“Something like.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/something%20like. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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