somebody
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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
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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