somewhen
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of somewhen
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The death of Mikhail Gorbachev feels like a news item in one of those stories — a discordant detail in the background to alert us that somehow, somewhen, something went wrong.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2022
Technically my secondary education took place in the 1990s, but really it happened somewhere else, or rather somewhen else.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2014
But somehow, somewhen, he always got her to dance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Somewhere, somewhen I've seen, But where or when I'll never know, Parrots of shrilly green With crests of shriller scarlet flying Out of black cedars as the sun was dying Against cold peaks of snow.
From Georgian Poetry 1918-19 by Sir Edward Howard Marsh
We feel, I trust, that these words are too beautiful not to represent true and just ideas; and that therefore they will come true, and be fulfilled, somewhen, somewhere, somehow.
From Town Geology by Charles Kingsley
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