something like
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1
: close to : approximately
It costs something like five dollars.
2
: somewhat or slightly like
He does look something like his father.
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In the third era, something like this would happen.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
At the time, the cleansing-fire credo was slower spreading to America, where the war came later and cost much less, and, indeed, ushered in something like yet another Gilded Age, the Jazz Age of the twenties, built on cheap credit and with its own cast of tycoon characters.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Republican lawmakers had already begun the process of creating something like a Florida DOGE.
—Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2025
Pushing clinical trials for hydroxychloroquine to treat mood disorders (remember this from COVID?) or promoting something like juicing as a treatment for depression?
—Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
At the time, the cleansing-fire credo was slower spreading to America, where the war came later and cost much less, and, indeed, ushered in something like yet another Gilded Age, the Jazz Age of the twenties, built on cheap credit and with its own cast of tycoon characters.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Republican lawmakers had already begun the process of creating something like a Florida DOGE.
—Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2025
Pushing clinical trials for hydroxychloroquine to treat mood disorders (remember this from COVID?) or promoting something like juicing as a treatment for depression?
—Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for something like
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“Something like.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/something%20like. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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