mean something

Example Sentences

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That doesn’t mean something similar will happen this time around, but she did note the ERP was approaching a low level that historically has left equity returns struggling to crack double digits.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

Fisher said those designations "have to mean something".

From BBC • May 2, 2026

“But you’re not rattling them off. They’re people that mean something to you; that you couldn’t be here without them.”

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2026

But over the past year it has come to mean something entirely different, namely that companies just doing pilots aren’t doing anything valuable with AI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

We tell each other this, in fact, when we speak of living languages, and I think we mean something more than an abstract metaphor.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas