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
Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2025
Newsweek's analysis of Google Earth imagery shows that construction of the replica compound began sometime between mid-October and early November 2014.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2025
Matteson reported a watermain break that was expected to be fixed by sometime Wednesday.
—Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
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Adverb
The event started sometime in the 1980’s when some pranksters began dyeing the fountains as a joke.
—Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2025
Newsweek's analysis of Google Earth imagery shows that construction of the replica compound began sometime between mid-October and early November 2014.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
Pollard revealed that the seemingly benign legislation benefited Goggin’s longtime friend and sometime business partner, Dennis Krieger, who was underwriting a stock sale for a company that made the only devices Goggin’s legislation would finance.
—Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2025
Matteson reported a watermain break that was expected to be fixed by sometime Wednesday.
—Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sometime
Adverb
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These eventually unravel, and build to an emotional wallop.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 Mar. 2025
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Jackson County Sheriff's Office Shortly after 1 a.m. on October 9, a despondent Chris Prichard was booked into the county jail, eventually charged with first-degree murder and robbery.—
Jonathan Vigliotti,
CBS News,
16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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What Does KenPom Say? Analytics guru Ken Pomeroy, a former U.S. government meteorologist, revolutionized the use of statistics as a predictor of success in the NCAA tournament in the early 2000s, and his rankings are recognized as the industry standard.—
Jack Magruder,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Three former Miami women’s winners are in the field in defending champ Danielle Collins, Iga Swiatek and Victoria Azarenka.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
16 Mar. 2025
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Who among us hasn’t spent a month, week, or even a day in Paris and dreamed of someday returning, keys in hand, to a Left Bank pied-à-terre?—
Laura May Todd,
Architectural Digest,
17 Mar. 2025
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The council also approved slight revisions to the city’s plans to create a new town center that someday will include a performing arts center, food hall, trails and promenades with public art.—
Gary Warth,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Every year in the US, there are approximately 35,000 ER visits due to unintentional medication overdoses among children under 5 years old.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN,
1 Mar. 2025
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The other part of him, the innie, is for all intents and purposes 2 1/2 years old.—
Gary Levin,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2025
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February finally brought a bit of inflation relief following a stretch of elevated readings — a sign that the underlying backdrop for the economy is one of diminishing price pressures.—
Axios,
Axios,
12 Mar. 2025
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But the day he was supposed to launch that book with a speech at Tehran’s book festival last May, he was finally arrested and sent to Tehran’s Evin prison.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The last bitcoin price boom that saw the bitcoin price climb to around $70,000 in late 2021 came in the aftermath of huge Covid-era government stimulus spending and money-printing.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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His latest film, Deepfaking Sam Altman, recently premiered at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival.—
Adam Bhala Lough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Mar. 2025
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Morgan began co-writing with them, and soon got a call from Aldean himself.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
21 Mar. 2025
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Poilievre vows to cut taxes and get resource projects in the resource-rich country approved sooner.—
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arkansasonline.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Porter Moser spent three seasons in the Big 12 before shepherding Oklahoma to the Southeastern Conference, making the longtime coach uniquely suited to compare the erstwhile best conference in America to the current king of college hoops.—
Dave Skretta,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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The focus right now is on Canada, an erstwhile friend, who has had enough of Trump after the surprise labeling them as fentanyl kingpins and smugglers of natural resources.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
16 Mar. 2025
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