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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Recent Examples of sometime
Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
Pride and Prejudice will start production in the United Kingdom sometime in 2025, per Tudum.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
The nuptials ushered in an era during which the movie-star princess, the Monte Carlo casino, and the nascent Grand Prix conspired to make Monaco a place of glamour and sometime excess.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 Mar. 2025
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Adverb
Once the spring beauties stop blooming, sometime in May, the bee’s life cycle is complete and it can no longer be found in the wild until next spring.
—Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
Pride and Prejudice will start production in the United Kingdom sometime in 2025, per Tudum.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
Vito Genovese, Frank’s sometime friend and longtime rival, is having a more eventful evening, overseeing the murder of his wife’s ex-husband.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
The nuptials ushered in an era during which the movie-star princess, the Monte Carlo casino, and the nascent Grand Prix conspired to make Monaco a place of glamour and sometime excess.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sometime
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For large portion of this year, Pope Francis resided at Rome's Gemelli University Hospital due to a litany of health issues, including bilateral pneumonia, before eventually succumbing to a stroke and irreversible heart failure.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Despite local opposition, state lawmakers anticipate that CoreCivic will eventually succeed in reopening the detention center.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Under former President Joe Biden, monthly student loan bills resumed in the fall of 2023 after a years-long break.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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In the past week, one of the most contentious issues to emerge has been the future of a former elementary school housing the pre-kindergarten programs for about 340 youngsters.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
21 Apr. 2025
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The output from there will someday feed the Texas plant, which is in development in Seadrift, Texas, on 149 acres adjacent to a 4,700-acre chemical plant operated for more than 60 years by Union Carbide and Dow Chemical.—
Christopher Helman,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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The president dished on whether Kai would be able to beat him on the course someday.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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With Venus retrograde in Aries starting on March 1 and affecting your career and outward expression, old insecurities about your worth and ambitions may surface.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 May 2025
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The movie set, like all others, should have only had blanks on hand, but somehow a number of live rounds made their way to the location and one such bullet ended up in the gun that went off as Hutchins and Baldwin lined up a shot in an old church.—
Marco della Cava,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
Adverb
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Twenty years in the making, the 2005 REAL ID Act is finally going into effect on May 7.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2025
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Panthers finally strike After getting several good looks early in the second period, Florida finally struck.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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By late April, his average approval rating had fallen under 45 percent.—
The Hill Staff,
The Hill,
24 Apr. 2025
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But China’s latest restrictions are more expansive, and there’s already some evidence that things could be different this time.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
24 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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And soon after, China got in on the action too, joining the WTO in 2001 and fully integrating into the global trade system like a kid finally allowed at the adult table – who would later proceed to totally dominate the manufacturing of every other table.—
Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
26 Apr. 2025
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The Face on the News The first the world at large saw of Leake came soon after his arrest in June 2023, when Russian media released a video filmed at a detention center in Moscow.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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That Horan yearns for the Fed to centrally plan an absurd creation of statist economists (GDP), prices, income, and employment more broadly is yet another disturbing lurch by an erstwhile free-market crowd that brevity disallows discussion of for now.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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The team is also working on restoring the habitat across the island, which was stripped of all its vegetation during its time as an erstwhile guano mining spot.—
Tim Chester,
AFAR Media,
17 Apr. 2025
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