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
Kyle Eustice, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2025
The pipeline could start delivering LNG to southern Alaska in 2028 or 2029, with exports to Asia beginning sometime in the early 2030s, Wright said.
—Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 2 June 2025
Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
The movie concerns Madison’s title character, a strip-club dancer and sometime escort, who impulsively marries her client, the goofy dissolute son of a Russian oligarch.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
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Adverb
The move forced Clipse to push back the album’s release date, which was originally supposed to be sometime in 2024.
—Kyle Eustice, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2025
The pipeline could start delivering LNG to southern Alaska in 2028 or 2029, with exports to Asia beginning sometime in the early 2030s, Wright said.
—Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 2 June 2025
Adjective
They were taken away and brought back a week later with broken arms and legs, sometime heads.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
The movie concerns Madison’s title character, a strip-club dancer and sometime escort, who impulsively marries her client, the goofy dissolute son of a Russian oligarch.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sometime
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This would be the first step in creating what the city calls the University Innovation District, meant to eventually host 20,000 students, 6,000 faculty and staff and lots of housing, with room for science and tech companies and restaurants.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 June 2025
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Legal questions over status to be tested anew But many in American Samoa eventually soured on the idea, fearing that extending birthright citizenship would jeopardize its customs — including the territory’s communal land laws.—
Mark Thiessen,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2025
Adjective
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The second of two debates includes Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor and mayoral front-runner, who will appear side by side with Zohran Mamdani, the thirty-three-year-old democratic-socialist assemblyman who has solidified his hold on second place in the polls.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
8 June 2025
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James Young, 53, a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Los Angeles, faces up to 29 years in prison after prosecutors amended a criminal complaint to include several counts like assault with a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon and causing a hit-and-run accident.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 June 2025
Adverb
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Perhaps someday the Pantanal will be seen as one too.—
Will McGough,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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And if someday that does take me to office in service of the nation, then by all means.—
/ CBS News,
CBS News,
25 May 2025
Adjective
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International students make up about 27% of the student body at the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
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Former New College student Katie Helms, 47, got emotional when remembering her old mentor.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
25 May 2025
Adverb
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Such a low number spurred fears the ongoing trade war may finally be starting to affect the economy’s hard data.—
Paolo Confino,
Fortune,
4 June 2025
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Mira proved a success almost immediately, with the first vehicle launching in 2023 and operating for a year in space, demonstrating ample mobility before finally depleting its propellant tanks.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
4 June 2025
Adjective
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The epilogue takes the form of an obituary for the magazine’s late founder, but also acts as Anderson’s charming ode to the golden age of longform journalism.—
Shannon Carlin,
Time,
30 May 2025
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And her momentum is not slowing any time soon, with a new HBO Max series adaptation of the Harry Potter books going into production this summer, expected to run for a decade beginning in late 2026 and mint a whole new generation of fans.—
Matt Craig,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
Adverb
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Few Floridians will soon forget the night in October 2024 when Hurricane Milton ripped apart large sections of the roof of the Tampa Bay Rays’ Tropicana Field, with winds estimated to have reached 120 mph.—
Jenna DiPaolo,
Sun Sentinel,
1 June 2025
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In Osceola, officials plan to soon implement FloodWise, a software technology that can predict where flooding will occur at the street level up to three days in advance of an approaching storm.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 June 2025
Adjective
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This and other such studies are significant steps in the erstwhile direction of mapping brain-mind formulations to the nature of mental disorders.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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In 2017 under the erstwhile Nebraska star, the Knights capped a 13-0 season by defeating Auburn in the Peach Bowl.—
Matt Murschel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 May 2025
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