something like
idiom
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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Spices don’t go bad the same way something like cottage cheese does.
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Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Going with something like a moneyline bet might be the best option.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Dynamic systems moving from something like a transistor, which can be a zero and a one, to a multi-state chaotic or the border of chaos system that is ultimately best modeled probabilistically, is quite a mind shift.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
If the war truly has come to something like an end, how will the American public remember it?
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
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Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Going with something like a moneyline bet might be the best option.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Dynamic systems moving from something like a transistor, which can be a zero and a one, to a multi-state chaotic or the border of chaos system that is ultimately best modeled probabilistically, is quite a mind shift.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
If the war truly has come to something like an end, how will the American public remember it?
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Something like.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/something%20like. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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