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somebody

[suhm-bod-ee, -buhd-ee, -buh-dee] / ˈsʌmˌbɒd i, -ˌbʌd i, -bə di /


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“Not just ‘Oh, look, we got somebody off the street.’

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

People would walk in a sandbox to get the sound of somebody walking up the gravel road to the door.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

"She was somebody who was exceptional - a real trailblazer and a feminist icon," Jenner-Fust said.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

The math isn’t mathing; somebody has to get left off.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

“That fabric thing. That was freaky. But it means somebody in there maybe can tell me what I need to know.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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

Morocco, to its further credit beyond all the credit it has earned here, coped with that by playing like somebodies who found themselves belonging here.

From Washington Post Dec. 14, 2022

I didn't know who these somebodies were, and I didn't much care.

From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson




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