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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The headquarters might feel something like a living history exhibit.
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Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
These are people who live with this threat in the back of their minds and work every day to prevent something like this from happening.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 16 Nov. 2025
Even when that kind of flight isn’t canceled outright, a delay of something like two hours can tilt the math and make taking a train more logical.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 15 Nov. 2025
The Running Man show itself, overseen by a silken Colman Domingo as host Bobby T, is presented as something like American Idol if, instead of singing, everyone were just trying to put off receiving a kill shot to the head for as long as possible.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
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Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
These are people who live with this threat in the back of their minds and work every day to prevent something like this from happening.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 16 Nov. 2025
Even when that kind of flight isn’t canceled outright, a delay of something like two hours can tilt the math and make taking a train more logical.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 15 Nov. 2025
The Running Man show itself, overseen by a silken Colman Domingo as host Bobby T, is presented as something like American Idol if, instead of singing, everyone were just trying to put off receiving a kill shot to the head for as long as possible.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
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“Something like.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/something%20like. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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