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someone

[suhm-wuhn, -wuhn] / ˈsʌmˌwʌn, -wən /


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"Someone is fraudulently using my name and photo," one staffer wrote on LinkedIn in April.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

Someone — or something — has piled lamps and stools into the center of one room, scattered chairs in another and embedded shoes into the floor as though the ground were made of sand.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

“Independent verification is, by definition, a human institution. Someone has to stand behind the work. What changes is not whether humans are involved, but what they spend their time on,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Someone like MEP Raphael Glucksmann, of the small Place Publique party, could become a rallying point for moderate left-centre voters and draw them away from Philippe.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

By March 2008 the stock market had finally grasped what every mortgage bond salesman had long known: Someone had lost at least $240 billion.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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