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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Some fans worried about the legality of all this, and if something like Beyond was destined to be struck down by a copyright claim.
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Jason Fanelli, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2025
Iris, played by Heretic and Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher, is a gorgeous yet enigmatic young woman who looks something like Zooey Deschanel in her New Girl years but without her happy, slightly thoughtless enthusiasm for life.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
Jupiter would be in the middle, with the three planets forming something like a long arc in the sky.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
There would be a huge fireball that would start fires out to 15 kilometers, something like that.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2025
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Jason Fanelli, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2025
Iris, played by Heretic and Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher, is a gorgeous yet enigmatic young woman who looks something like Zooey Deschanel in her New Girl years but without her happy, slightly thoughtless enthusiasm for life.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
Jupiter would be in the middle, with the three planets forming something like a long arc in the sky.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
There would be a huge fireball that would start fires out to 15 kilometers, something like that.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2025
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“Something like.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/something%20like. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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