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somehow

adverb

Definition of somehow

as in ever

in a way that is not known or certain Somehow we got lost. She somehow managed to find her earring in the sand. It will all work out somehow.

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Recent Examples of somehow Perhaps the most persistent fantasy in interiors is that a room can somehow escape its own time. — Steven Weill, Architectural Digest, 26 Aug. 2026 As superintendent of Desert Sands Unified in the Coachella Valley, Kelly May-Vollmar has a hard time naming a system that’s not somehow connected to the district’s broadband network. — Linda Jacobson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 On the one hand, this is somehow worse for Pakistan than first felt, collapsing twice against bowling that was simply solid, rather than exceptional. — Ben Jones, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 The latter was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients in its heyday, which feels thematically right somehow. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for somehow

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By some metrics, KPop Demon Hunters may be the most popular movie ever to be added to the collection.

— Sophia Nguyen, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
Twenty-five years on and seeking revenge, Robbie infiltrates his gang from the bottom up in order to kill the man responsible, only to discover that the British underboss is grooming him to settle a debt no one was ever meant to survive.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026

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