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somebody

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


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"They want to bring in somebody who they know is going to generate eyeballs, who's going to generate those headlines and who can consistently raise a crowd and that's exactly what Victoria's Secret has done."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

"How somebody can make videos abroad knowing it's causing direct consequences to people abroad, what kind of person can sleep at night doing that," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

“In the absence of knowing somebody, it’s really easy to make them feel other and scary,” he tells the filmmakers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Oh, somebody threw a nappy into a sewer,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

It was said that she never left her place for fear somebody would charge her money for something.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Is there somebody or somebodies that you’ve thought about for a while and said, “Well, that would fit, that could work”?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

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

Any political cartoon is bound to offend somebody — or quite a few somebodies — on a regular basis.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

Most of the people in these different sets are somebodies because either their grandfathers or they have done something well—better than other people, and made money as a consequence.

From Unleavened Bread by Robert Grant


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