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
Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 9 July 2025
Depending on timing of approvals, the first phase of construction could begin sometime within the next 18 to 24 months, Lacey said.
—Theresa Clift
july 8, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2025
Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
Berninger made the album with co-producer and sometime co-writer Sean O’Brien.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 11 Mar. 2025
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Adverb
Paul said Nancy’s plan was to return sometime between December 17th and December 27th.
—Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 9 July 2025
Depending on timing of approvals, the first phase of construction could begin sometime within the next 18 to 24 months, Lacey said.
—Theresa Clift
july 8, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
The fang gang present themselves as yearning European folk enthusiasts and later as jigging fiends and sometime metalheads.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
Berninger made the album with co-producer and sometime co-writer Sean O’Brien.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sometime
Adverb
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He was eventually surrounded and surrendered to agents.—
Stepheny Price , Bill Melugin,
FOXNews.com,
15 July 2025
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The organizers were eventually forced to slash ticket prices for the knockout games, including the semis and the final.—
Siladitya Ray,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
Adjective
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Nic’s former connection, Cierra, who was kicked off the show for using a racial slur in a past social media post, subtly supported her former partner’s new connection with her best friend.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Reed Hastings, co-founder and former CEO of Netflix, has signed on as an executive producer of the upcoming crime-thriller 52nd State, which is currently in production in Bogota, Colombia.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
14 July 2025
Adverb
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Tech giant Google is investing money into a futuristic nuclear fusion plant that hasn’t been built yet but someday will replicate the energy of the stars.—
Ella Nilsen,
CNN Money,
30 June 2025
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In some ways, this is a beautiful development: Imagine your own children’s children’s children someday learning about history not from textbooks but from you, the person who lived it.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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Cape Florida Light The Cape Florida Light, in Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park on the tip of Key Biscayne, is the oldest lighthouse in the state.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
11 July 2025
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Patrick O’Connor, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, told AP this may be Denver’s deepest and oldest find yet.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
11 July 2025
Adverb
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No, what finally finished me on this subplot was this week’s exchange of manuscripts with Duncan, a highbrow biographer.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
11 July 2025
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Now, tariffs—those blunt instruments of trade policy—may finally compel businesses to move beyond talk and deliver meaningful change.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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So Garrett leaned into the execution of his sinker early and splitter late to work around a single in the eighth and to retire the side in order in the ninth, keeping Judge in the on-deck circle for the final out.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
5 July 2025
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Many among Australia’s 117,000-strong Jewish population are anxious after spate of antisemitic attacks in the country’s two biggest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, since late last year – including arson attacks on synagogues, and swastikas scrawled on buildings and cars.—
Angus Watson,
CNN Money,
5 July 2025
Adverb
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The fallout from all this is coming soon, first with the draft, then at the deadline.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
7 July 2025
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Reynolds said that his niece has cuts and bruises all over her entire body, but should be released from the hospital soon pending blood work.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 July 2025
Adjective
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But the real question is what kind of concrete retribution Trump could try to exact on his erstwhile political ally and campaign donor.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
7 July 2025
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On the way to the Fordyce’s second floor, the erstwhile opulence along Bathhouse Row becomes evident.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 June 2025
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“Sometime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sometime. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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