somebody
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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
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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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