as in eventually
at a later time
we'll get around to it sometime
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as in former
having been such at some previous time
a sometime athlete who's gotten awfully fat
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Daniela Avila, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
The program should roll out at its first international destination sometime in 2025, TSA Administrator David Pekoske said at the Skift Global Forum in September.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2024
Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
The national-security analyst’s wife and sometime co-author is charged with being a South Korean agent.
—Becket Adams, National Review, 21 July 2024
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The musician's performance of the song comes amid Swifties' anticipation that the star will formally announce Reputation (Taylor’s Version) sometime soon.
—Daniela Avila, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
The program should roll out at its first international destination sometime in 2025, TSA Administrator David Pekoske said at the Skift Global Forum in September.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2024
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Prime Video has officially picked up a spinoff of its action drama centered on Jack Reacher’s (Alan Ritchson) former military colleague and sometime collaborator Frances Neagley.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
The national-security analyst’s wife and sometime co-author is charged with being a South Korean agent.
—Becket Adams, National Review, 21 July 2024
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Such trust can go a long way in progressing CTs with faster patient recruitment, retention and eventually adoption of their products.Avik Pal, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Privately, those close to him believed that the President would eventually intervene and end the federal prosecutions against his son.Philip Elliott, TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
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One particular day while filming The Wolf of Wall Street, Kate Winslet happened to visit her former costar on his new project.Angel Saunders, People.com, 3 Dec. 2024
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In the face of bipartisan opposition, one of Trump’s most controversial picks—former Congressman Max Gaetz—withdrew from consideration to be attorney general.Edward Segal, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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And there will be a plan for children someday soon.Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Dec. 2024
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With global warming intensifying, can residents of Buffalo hope that someday soon the sky won’t be as cold and their snowstorms won’t be as devastating?Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Seen by so many as a symbol of strength and dedication to the rebuilding efforts, the wooden spire finally shed its scaffolding and returned to the Paris skyline early last year.Joseph Ataman, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
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Burges would start to take his own trips to Japan, finally gaining clarity on the style of restaurant he felt destined to open himself.Andrew Watman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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The Giants aren’t expected to announce it until late Sunday or Monday.Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 8 Dec. 2024
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But that hope vanished soon after when D’Arnaud, 35, signed a two-year, $12 million deal with the Angels less than two weeks after becoming a free agent.David O'Brien, The Athletic, 10 Dec. 2024
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Emilia Pérez was a crowd pleaser out of Cannes, with Netflix swooping up the feature soon after its debut at the May festival.Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2024
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In the gray daylight of the first days of Syria’s freedom, its citizens appear so far to be behaving not like unrestrained madmen but like traumatized, decent people worthy of their liberty, delivered even by an erstwhile jihadist.Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement The rapid advance by insurgents is a stunning reversal of fortunes for Syria’s President Bashar Assad, who appears to be largely on his own, with erstwhile allies preoccupied with other conflicts.Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Sometime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sometime. Accessed 13 Dec. 2024.
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