as in eventually
at a later time
we'll get around to it sometime
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as in former
having been such at some previous time
a sometime athlete who's gotten awfully fat
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Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 2025
Democrats have watched their Miami-Dade numbers shrink for years and now are on track to lose the No. 1 slot to the GOP sometime later this year.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025
Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
This is by design; his sometime advisor Steve Bannon advocated flooding the zone with, well, excrement, so that media couldn’t keep up.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Orders are already being taken for the sleek sedan with a launch expected to take place sometime next year.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 2025
Democrats have watched their Miami-Dade numbers shrink for years and now are on track to lose the No. 1 slot to the GOP sometime later this year.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025
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Page Six reported that Affleck and Kick Kennedy, a socialite and sometime actor, were seen hanging out and getting cozy at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
This is by design; his sometime advisor Steve Bannon advocated flooding the zone with, well, excrement, so that media couldn’t keep up.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Their style is to inflict death by a thousand passes, defending through retaining possession, moving the ball to move their opponents until, eventually, a gap opens.Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
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The bill is currently only meant to cover hotels, restaurants and private sites, but could eventually extend to goods and services, including reviews left on major international sites like Amazon.Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 15 Jan. 2025
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However, Joann has not had a permanent chief executive since May last year after the retirement of former President and CEO Wade Miquelon.Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Their former The Hills co-stars Brody Jenner, Kristin Cavallari, Whitney Port and Audrina Patridge have all shouted out Montag’s music on their own platforms.Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025
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And the latest mission of the nearly 400-foot-tall (121-meter) vehicle is designed to push the envelope even further in a quest to return astronauts to the moon and someday fulfill CEO Elon Musk’s dream of sending the first humans to Mars.Jackie Wattles, CNN, 15 Jan. 2025
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While SpaceX's competency with reusing Falcon 9 boosters gets a lot of attention—landing a rocket is still incredible, even after seeing it nearly 400 times—its manufacturing prowess with Falcon 9 upper stages suggests that building 100 Starships each year just might be doable someday.Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
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On the day of the shooting, Nixon-Clark was 16 years and 9 months old, just shy of reaching legal status as an adult.Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Jan. 2025
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That policy is so old that Chapman remembers it from his rookie year in the NYPD as a young patrolman in East Harlem in 1968.Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
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After 19 consecutive victories to start the high school basketball season, Mira Costa finally faced a team that proved to be better.Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
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Front-line and now finally chic-to-be-geek, developers are always in the spotlight (for good and bad reasons) and generally regarded to be the stars of the technology world in the neo-cloud era of AI where the promise of quantum hangs close to come.Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Three players have played left tackle, and a fourth — D.J. Humphries, signed in late November — may get the nod Saturday over converted guard Joe Thuney.Mike Jones, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
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Among the companies in the race to produce that truck is Tesla, which has announced plans to begin high-volume production of its semi in late 2025.Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
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Combs, Carter and an unnamed female celebrity allegedly entered the room soon after, according to her complaint.Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2025
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Trump has pledged to carry out several anti-trans policies on day one of his presidency or soon after being sworn in.Orion Rummler, Them, 8 Jan. 2025
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But as the decades passed and shinier properties in even taller towers mushroomed around the city, the Dusit Thani lost its erstwhile luster and eventually morphed into a dependable — but dated — choice for (mostly) business travelers passing through town.Chris Schalkx, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2025
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And while Vice President-elect J.D. Vance is in many respects a movement conservative himself, the populist Ohioan has worked with progressive Democrats on bipartisan legislation in the Senate, in contrast with former Vice President Mike Pence, Trump’s erstwhile sidekick from four years ago.W. James Antle III, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Jan. 2025
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“Sometime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sometime. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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