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
Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
As of a few years ago, at least one Army official was still talking about such a suit as a long-term effort that could potentially become a reality sometime in the 2040s.
—Jared Keller, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024
The former Verve singer will join his sometime collaborators at the 19 shows in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2024
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The first season finale of Severance ended on a cliffhanger, which will likely be resolved sometime during show’s second installment.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
As of a few years ago, at least one Army official was still talking about such a suit as a long-term effort that could potentially become a reality sometime in the 2040s.
—Jared Keller, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024
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Here too the plot sends her character, the struggling actress and sometime lover of Dustin Hoffman’s cross-dressing soap star, up the river as needed.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024
The former Verve singer will join his sometime collaborators at the 19 shows in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2024
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While Bitcoin is not in immediate danger, the network will eventually require a major infrastructure upgrade to remain secure.Sandy Carter, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Although Awakenings brought Sacks public attention (and eventually a Hollywood movie), his greatest success came after the publication of 1985’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a volume of clinical tales that humanized people with serious neurological disorders.Michael S. Roth, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2024
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Lake, a former TV broadcaster who narrowly lost the 2022 gubernatorial race, has been a prominent surrogate for Trump’s presidential campaign, appearing in Iowa and New Hampshire, and has been mentioned as a possible vice-presidential pick.Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Trump said he's taken more than 100 congratulatory calls from his former and future counterparts since the November election.Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
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Just down the road, workers mill in and out of the launch pad area where SpaceX founder Elon Musk and his team propel 5,000-ton rockets into space and from where the tycoon hopes to someday send humans to Mars.Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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Scientists hope this kind of pig will someday provide an unlimited supply of kidneys, livers, hearts and other organs that could alleviate the chronic shortage of organs for transplantation and save thousands of patients every year.Rob Stein, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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That set has only been available digitally and on streaming until recently, when it was finally shared on CD and vinyl, and that release turned it into a blockbuster once more. Luminate reports that in the past tracking week, The Tortured Poets Department sold another 368,000 copies.Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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The collarless jacket is finally a style that feels like me.Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2024
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The Giants aren’t expected to announce it until late Sunday or Monday.Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Actually, in a sense, everything points back to the Newcastle Theatre Royal when Peter Sarah, its late general manager, took young Harrison under his wing and introduced him to London producer David Pugh who, at the time was producing Art with Albert Finney.Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 7 Dec. 2024
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But that hope vanished soon after when D’Arnaud, 35, signed a two-year, $12 million deal with the Angels less than two weeks after becoming a free agent.David O'Brien, The Athletic, 10 Dec. 2024
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Now in 2024, the company is saying that Hatsune Miku VG AI will be out soon and would use in part AI voice synthesization tools.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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In the gray daylight of the first days of Syria’s freedom, its citizens appear so far to be behaving not like unrestrained madmen but like traumatized, decent people worthy of their liberty, delivered even by an erstwhile jihadist.Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement The rapid advance by insurgents is a stunning reversal of fortunes for Syria’s President Bashar Assad, who appears to be largely on his own, with erstwhile allies preoccupied with other conflicts.Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Sometime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sometime. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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