somebody
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"It is healthy to talk, so definitely if you're a man and you're struggling, at least speak to somebody," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Soon the menus are stacked, the pebbled Coke cups are sweating rings onto the table and somebody is pointing with a chip while saying, “No, no, tell her the part about —”
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
He delivers couplets like “I need somebody sent down from the sun / That talks to me how you used to” as if he believes that if he stops singing he might die.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“I’m really sick of somebody having that power over me,” he told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
It was harebrained to think I would marry anytime soon, even if I did hit it off with somebody.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
You can think, within two seconds, of stories of nobodies who became somebodies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
"Somebody or somebodies know where this came from and how it got there," Mr Tobin said.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024
Over the decades, amateurs have beaten pros, nobodies have beaten somebodies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
Any political cartoon is bound to offend somebody — or quite a few somebodies — on a regular basis.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
Somebody, or several somebodies, must have said this; and many more people than have ever said it—at least in print—must have felt it.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
