somehow

Definition of somehownext
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 The Ducks played one of the sloppiest games from any program in recent memory, somehow managing to turn the ball over an incredible seven times. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026 Badly injured, Captain Machchhar somehow opened the cockpit door, allowing passengers to overpower al-Hammami, and two off-duty pilots to take control of the plane and land it in Saudi Arabia. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 10 Oct. 2026 Other times, a bike maker can slap on a new paint job, a different set of wheels and a cushier seat, and somehow end up with a bike that sells like hotcakes. — New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2026 Graham’s poetry—as readers of The New York Review will know—somehow manages to reckon with the whole spectrum of human existence in the 2020s. — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for somehow
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Adverb
  • This is the practical discipline of moving ever onward in the face of ambiguity.
    — Jeff DeGraff, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Cringing can therefore manifest as the abashment of not knowing (yet; possibly ever) how to read something.
    — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • But this is about Folk, the 41-year-old whose right leg could be the Falcons’ biggest point of improvement from last season and a 19-year veteran who has somehow, someway, turned back the clock.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Furthermore, Barca is still someway short of being able to follow a top number 9 such as Julian Alvarez.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2026

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“Somehow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/somehow. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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