as in one
known but not named
some people won't be able to come
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as in approximately
close to but not exactly
some 300 people showed up for the giveaway
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Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
TikTok, too, is included in the CoQ10 supplements fanfare, to the tune of some 22,000 posts as of late.
—Perri Ormont Blumberg, Glamour, 10 Sep. 2024
Those notes can be played at different volumes—some louder, some softer.
—Fyodor Urnov, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024
In other Commonwealth nations, Queen Elizabeth II’s death renewed rumblings – some louder than others – of moves to sever ties with the crown and become republics.
—Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 14 July 2024
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Trump‘s rivals Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton and President Biden are among the unfortunate who showed up to their sword fights with a sword (some sharper than others) only to find Trump armed with a the verbal equivalent of a leaf blower and chainsaw.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
TikTok, too, is included in the CoQ10 supplements fanfare, to the tune of some 22,000 posts as of late.
—Perri Ormont Blumberg, Glamour, 10 Sep. 2024
Those notes can be played at different volumes—some louder, some softer.
—Fyodor Urnov, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024
In other Commonwealth nations, Queen Elizabeth II’s death renewed rumblings – some louder than others – of moves to sever ties with the crown and become republics.
—Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 14 July 2024
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Drinkwater didn't make one appearance in a Chelsea shirt last season, whilst Bakayoko spent the season in Italy on loan at AC Milan.SI.com, SI.com, 3 Aug. 2019
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Decisions made by engineers today, in other words, will determine not how one car drives but how all cars drive.Johannes Himmelreich, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
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Though not very large, standing at approximately 72 inches tall, the Hoosier cabinet filled a storage and organizational void.Michelle Mastro, JSTOR Daily, 18 Dec. 2024
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Germany has been one of Ukraine's closest allies and is the largest military supplier since the war began in February 2022, sending aid now and into the future valued at approximately 28 billion euros ($29.4 billion).Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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The company estimates the pilot project will cost about $125 million.Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 15 Dec. 2024
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Parts of neighboring San Mateo County were also included in the warning, which went out at 5:51 a.m. to about 1 million people and was lifted about 20 minutes later.CBS News, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2024
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Glass is expected arrive in Fayetteville around 2 p.m. Monday and leave Tuesday afternoon.Richard Davenport, arkansasonline.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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The entire repair process of a single broken cup, which ends with the application of the lacquer, takes around three months.Maria Yagoda, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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Macy’s is up roughly 17% over the past three months.Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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According to Adobe Digital Insights, sample and discovery sets comprised roughly 27 percent of fragrance sales during the five-day period between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday this year.Noor Lobad, WWD, 10 Dec. 2024
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To Schilling, Hill, and their colleagues, this means that although predictive deep learning programs have their uses, the burden of proof needs to be much more rigorous when using them in situations such as medical research.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Dec. 2024
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Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau said as much ahead of tipoff in an elimination NBA Cup game against the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday.Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Some.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/some. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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