as in one
known but not named
some people won't be able to come
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as in approximately
close to but not exactly
some 300 people showed up for the giveaway
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Recent Examples of some
Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2015
All 3 will open up the offense some more and 2 of the 3 would allow Dray to play the 4, which is his preference.
—Anthony Slater, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
Always holding this very special balance, at times bending a bit some more to one side, the other times to the other side.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Amid this slew of options—some mundane, some exotic—scientists are devising ways to test the possibilities against each other.
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
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So, some earlier, some later, but right around the time that the Greeks were talking about these people and excited about their barbarian lifestyle, archaeologists were finding the graves of these people.
—Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2015
All 3 will open up the offense some more and 2 of the 3 would allow Dray to play the 4, which is his preference.
—Anthony Slater, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
Always holding this very special balance, at times bending a bit some more to one side, the other times to the other side.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Amid this slew of options—some mundane, some exotic—scientists are devising ways to test the possibilities against each other.
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for some
Adjective
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Drinkwater didn't make one appearance in a Chelsea shirt last season, whilst Bakayoko spent the season in Italy on loan at AC Milan.—
SI.com,
SI.com,
3 Aug. 2019
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Decisions made by engineers today, in other words, will determine not how one car drives but how all cars drive.—
Johannes Himmelreich,
BostonGlobe.com,
30 Mar. 2018
Adverb
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In Missouri, school districts must provide 1,044 hours of instruction, or approximately 166 days per year, with a cap of 36 virtual learning hours per year and 10 weather makeup days.—
Taylor O’Connor,
Kansas City Star,
22 Feb. 2025
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The width of the spot is greater than 6 centimeters (approximately the size of a pencil eraser), although melanoma could be diagnosed at smaller sizes.—
Caroline C. Boyle,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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Fort Knox is a Kentucky military installation about 40 miles south of Louisville, known for holding more than 147 million ounces of the U.S.' gold reserves.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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The roughly 8 million passenger cars and light trucks brought into the US last year accounted for about half of US vehicle sales.—
Bloomberg,
The Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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Workers were informed about the buyouts during a meeting that lasted around 10 minutes on Monday, the report said.—
Sriparna Roy,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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His estranged daughter Alexandra (Lizzy Caplan), a Congresswoman whose superficial resemblance to a real-life New York City politician with nearly the same name isn’t the least bit coincidental, is never around.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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Then a group of visionaries decided to build a replica of an ancient sailing canoe, like the ones the first Hawaiians traveled on to reach the archipelago roughly 1,500 years ago.—
Brianna Randall,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Of the 22 questions DeCosta was asked in a news conference that lasted roughly 18 minutes, six of them were about Tucker’s status or the team’s position.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
The Athletic,
26 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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After the Mets fell two wins short of reaching the 2024 World Series, expectations in 2025 are much higher.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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Almost no area could absorb that much rain without flooding, but recent storms have already soaked soils in this region and make the threat that much more serious.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Some.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/some. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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