somehow

as in ever
in a way that is not known or certain Somehow we got lost. She somehow managed to find her earring in the sand. It will all work out somehow.

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Recent Examples of somehow But somehow, Witt avoided the incoming tag with a terrific slide. Kansas City Star, 4 July 2025 Salt air somehow makes even the yummiest ones taste better. Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 3 July 2025 Glusman is perfectly fine, but the writing leaves this figure too much of a naif to seem threatening or to be credible when Elliot somehow circumvents Sophie’s protective barriers. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 July 2025 These false starts are somehow exhausting, lacking in suspense. Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for somehow
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Adverb
  • Such concepts—risk scoring, escalation processes, regulatory compliance mapping and ongoing monitoring—become ever more directly related to smart factories and global supply chains.
    Ramachander Rao Thallada, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Dakota Johnson and Kate Hudson have been friends for…ever?
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 1 July 2025
Adverb
  • Don’t try to spin things because you guys feel [someway] about Miami.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
  • All of which puts it someway behind high-profile rivals and critics of the couple.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
Adverb
  • Around Los Angeles, flower sellers who congregate outside Forest Lawn were missing, buses were running half empty, car washes were closed.
    Jim Newton, Mercury News, 27 June 2025
  • With the tournament roughly half over, the 70,248 fans who showed up Sunday afternoon in Charlotte marked the second-most any game in the tournament has drawn so far, trailing only the 80,619 that came to the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles for a match one week before.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 23 June 2025

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