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• The Align Pants, which launched in 2015, have something of a cult.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 6 May 2023
• This is something of a make-or-break season for him with the Rangers.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• The half-point rate cut comes as something of a surprise.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2024
• The way Anohni opens her new album comes as something of a shock.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 31 July 2023
• There was always something of the prep-school kid about him — combined with the rebel.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Dec. 2023
• Perlin’s life has been something of a sine wave as well.
  — Eugene Linden, TIME, 21 Apr. 2024
• That made Season 6, at least at the start, something of a relief.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• In fact, the South Africa native made something of a Freudian slip.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
• But in the One Bite world, Dave Portnoy and the pizza are something of a package deal.
  — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The new medium was something of a mystery back then, even in her own home.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Hernández will still be something of a project for the Dodgers’ hitting staff.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• Because that's what happened to me, which is something of a TV first.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 16 June 2024
• That survey was something of a swipe at the Club for Growth, which is backing Mooney to the tune of $10 million.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 2 May 2023
• The company’s shares are down about 9.5% year to date, but have been on something of a rebound for the past month.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 26 June 2024
• The disease is caused by a parasite that is something of a shape-shifter.
  — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
• The Ballers initially hoped to play at Laney College, which was something of a twist.
  — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2024
• For the next few days, the disabled ship became something of a tourist attraction of its own.
  — John Ramos and Betty Yu, CBS News, 11 July 2023
• The state’s travel ban has been something of a bust, writes Times columnist Nicholas Goldberg.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• Saddam Hussein had deprived the Shiites of what was something of a holy land to them.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Thanks to Sullivan, the U.S. is something of an outlier in this area of law.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
• Yet the extent of his substance problems comes as something of a shock to Eugene.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
• It’s also been something of a nostalgia trip for both of them.
  — Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2024
• According to the chairman of one of the U.K.’s biggest chains, the trend has become something of a white-collar crime.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 4 Jan. 2024
• Still, many of us acknowledge that those first silver strands can come as something of a shock.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2023
• The plan to end the show came as something of a surprise to the man who runs the franchise, chief content officer Scott M. Gimple.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 May 2023
• The steady progression of their joint public outings has reached something of a fever pitch this month.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 11 Mar. 2024
• But the testimony, while striking, was something of a sideshow to the trial’s main event.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 9 May 2024
• The fact that asteroids can have satellites at all came as something of a surprise.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2024
• The town of Sisters is something of a sanctuary for my family.
  — Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2024
• That creates something of a trade-off for customers — with more opportunities to hit on a deal but fewer ways to plan ahead to snag one.
  — Candace Kuo, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024