someone
Americanpronoun
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"We have a lot of data so a lot of the stuff in my home can get automated but periodically someone kind of steps in and helps," he says.
From BBC
“It’s not pleasant to have our name used by someone else,” Sassounian said.
From Los Angeles Times
What surprised me was that I’d never heard the alert before actually deplaning, and certainly never heard it verbally, let alone by someone working for the airline.
From Salon
“They are not advice tools, and they are not designed to tell someone when to buy or sell a home,” said Trevor Bacon, Parcl’s chief executive.
“I have sympathy for them as families,” Blanchard went on, but crossing the border doesn’t make someone a U.S. citizen.
From Los Angeles Times
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