somebody
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"To lose somebody is to know you're only human, honey," she sings on To Love Somebody, external, soothing her elder sister as she endures an agonising break-up.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
“You go out with somebody you don’t know, and you’re risking throwing communications out into the ether that are potentially there forever,” says Fugardi, a serial executive who now runs a hair-tool business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
Rather than a fixed, positional style of play - akin to the work of somebody like Manchester City's Enzo Maresca - Pochettino's USA had only certain players being tasked with holding their position.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
“The U.S. government is going to need to get used to working with somebody else at Nvidia very closely.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
The bracket that held the map was there, but somebody had swiped the map itself, a good cloth-backed one with a lot of uses.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Is there somebody or somebodies that you’ve thought about for a while and said, “Well, that would fit, that could work”?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
You can think, within two seconds, of stories of nobodies who became somebodies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
"Somebody or somebodies know where this came from and how it got there," Mr Tobin said.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024
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
I found him dryin off by an old Fritz stove an eatin somebodies Irun Rashuns.
From "Same old Bill, eh Mable!" by G. William Breck
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