somebody
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Whatever he said next was a rebuttal to a case somebody else had opened without telling him, using words he’d tried to erase.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
"I know how healing it is to have somebody finally name what you have."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
It’s not often that somebody gets their real-estate license and becomes a Super Bowl champion within a year, but that’s exactly what Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Montorie Foster Jr. did.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
“It’s very, very common for somebody to be like, ‘Can you make a giant six-foot-tall pill bottle by tomorrow?’” she adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
“If somebody comes for me, will you tell them I’ll be out by the basketball hoop?”
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
"If the produce that I've been growing is contaminated in some way, hows it going to affect somebodies health. How is it going to affect my health?," she said.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
You can think, within two seconds, of stories of nobodies who became somebodies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
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
