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[ adverb ] in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means
Synonyms Examples "they managed somehow" "he expected somehow to discover a woman who would love him" "he tried to make is someway acceptable" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)Many Hollywood films manage somehow to be authentic , but not realistic . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Yet the violent immediacy of the wallpaper strips pasted to the paper , and the only lesser immediacy of block_capitals that simulate window lettering , manage somehow to push the grape cluster back into place on the picture_plane so that it does not `` jump '' . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Somehow he had forgotten what he must have been told , that combat was an intermittent activity . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)They made the world seem friendly somehow , though he knew it was not . Somehow Dr._Charles_Leale was forced through the mob and squeezed_out into the dingy corridor . |
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[ adverb ] for some unspecified reason
Synonyms Examples "It doesn't seem fair somehow" "he had me dead to rights but somehow I got away with it" "for some reason they didn't seem to match" Used in print (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)There would be great need soon for his skill as surgeon , but somehow he had not planned to use his knowledge merely for war . (Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)Somehow Winston did n't think she 'd take_to window_boxes . |
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