somebody
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"We are looking for somebody who can actually accomplish and actually bring to the people what they are talking about," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
If someone else did it, and didn’t know it was his song, he’d be upset that somebody took his song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"Every time somebody wants help here, he helps them. His nature is very good," Shah said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
I’m not somebody who thinks that my faith needs to be written directly into law.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
They heard the crackle and pop of somebody walking toward them through the dry pine needles on the forest floor, and the girls looked up hopefully.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
"If the produce that I've been growing is contaminated in some way, hows it going to affect somebodies health. How is it going to affect my health?," she said.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
You can think, within two seconds, of stories of nobodies who became somebodies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Morocco, to its further credit beyond all the credit it has earned here, coped with that by playing like somebodies who found themselves belonging here.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2022
But there’ll be scores — perhaps hundreds — of publicity seekers, gadflies and wannabe somebodies on the ballot to replace Newsom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2021
"They are the kids of somebodies," he said audibly.
From The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
