something else
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Here, Moore shows reverence not only for her own craft, but for all the hopeful idealists who pine to know what it feels like to lose yourself in someone, or something, else.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
I also sense that if you give $12,000 to one for property taxes, the other one will want thousands of dollars for something else.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
And then I didn’t hear from him, so I thought they were doing something else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
We can say, in these and other cases, that something else would have occurred, propelled by the larger structural forces driving history, that would have put us in roughly the same place anyway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
It occurred to him that if his strength gave out before he reached shore, he could always hang on to a different tree or another stump or something else that was floating.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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