as in almost
very close to but not completely
somewhere around 15,000 people live in town
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Recent Examples of somewhere
Sitting somewhere, putting on shoes, eating an apple, listening in headphones that sort of progresses into something a bit wilder.
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Ellise Shafer, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Chef Eubanks recommends cranking things up to somewhere between 400°F and 450°F.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
Selling a home involves substantial transaction costs, and people who sell their house have to find somewhere else to live.
—Allison Schrager, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
This was the Kuminga that even his biggest detractors had to acknowledge existed somewhere.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
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Ellise Shafer, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Chef Eubanks recommends cranking things up to somewhere between 400°F and 450°F.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
Selling a home involves substantial transaction costs, and people who sell their house have to find somewhere else to live.
—Allison Schrager, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
This was the Kuminga that even his biggest detractors had to acknowledge existed somewhere.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for somewhere
Adverb
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The Dancing With the Stars judging panel almost got through Wicked night without flying off the handle.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
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In September, a 130-unit building in Chicago’s South Shore was raided, with almost every one of the building’s residents — even children — being detained.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Recreate Witherspoon’s rich monochromatic look with these burgundy pants that are practically begging to be worn during holiday gatherings.—
Averi Baudler,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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With such a wide array of benefits and potential savings, an Amazon Prime membership will practically pay for itself.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Gehl and his staff still have had to intervene when kids have misbehaved over the course of the brewery's nearly decade in business.—
Jordyn Noennig,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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In Michigan, where nearly 13% of households receive SNAP benefits, news of the pause had families, from Detroit to Interlochen, preparing to go to food pantries and worried about what's to come.—
Nushrat Rahman,
Freep.com,
27 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The display area matches the size of a human pupil and achieves a resolution beyond 25,000 pixels per inch (ppi), which is about 150 times denser than most smartphone screens.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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South Korea’s intelligence agency estimated in September that about 2,000 North Korean soldiers had been killed in the fighting.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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In the first fight, Dern edged out two rounds to take a 29-28 decision, winning the first round fairly comfortably on the feet and outlanding Jandiroba 28-19.—
Brett Appley,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Yet over a decade later, the constitution remains provisional and there is no clear agreement on how the central government in Mogadishu shares power with Somalia’s seven member states—some of which operate fairly autonomously.—
Omar S Mahmood,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Somewhere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/somewhere. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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