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 And that’s a figure that the Mistral somehow achieved with the roof off. Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2025 To an older listener, her songs may sound like standards — ones that, somehow, have remained hidden to the public since the ’30s and ’40s. Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025 One of the theories postulates that the ribbon represents a group of particles that somehow leaked from the heliosphere and bounced around interstellar space before returning to the Solar System. Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025 And Jelly Roll is one of those people that somehow finds time to look after everyone, including himself. Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for somehow
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Adverb
  • This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Hereafter is one of the most active spaces Alankus has ever investigated.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 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
  • These changes could also help cut annual greenhouse gas emissions from global food systems by more than half, according to the EAT-Lancet commission, a group of leading experts in agriculture, climate, economics, health and nutrition from more than 35 countries across six continents.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Elllington, surprised, half-bowed back.
    Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025

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