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someone

[suhm-wuhn, -wuhn]

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pronoun

some person; somebody.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English; see some, one

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Every second, it seems, someone in the world takes on more debt.

Create a bouquet of these beautiful tissue paper flowers for someone special.

These picturesque beds can be reached by someone in a wheelchair.

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Every second, it seems, someone in the world takes on more debt.

Create a bouquet of these beautiful tissue paper flowers for someone special.

These picturesque beds can be reached by someone in a wheelchair.

Last summer someone killed seven of these magnificent creatures.

Someone else's castoffs can be freshened and given new life as garden decor.

It's another thing entirely for someone to say it in a crossword.

What is difficult to you might be brilliant to someone else.

And someone started leaving chopped-up sausages on his car, a possible reference to castration.

Accept someone else's card with both hands and give it due attention before putting it away.

Horror movies may bank on the same part of your brain getting excited while watching someone else in fear as when you.

Two words someone else would use to describe me are hectic and mildly amusing.

After that, it's all fun and games until someone summons an honest-to-goodness succubus.

The good news is that someone still wants to spy on us.

Someone who takes the time to help with your studies and your career.

But being able to feel a bit better-off than someone else makes it a bit more bearable.

They cannot be used to identify someone in criminal proceedings.

After natural disasters, an anxious public wants to see that someone understands the catastrophe.

Three words someone else would use to describe me are intense, loyal and loud.

Personalize a milk-chocolate heart for your significant someone with a white-chocolate message.

The flutes and soprano saxophones sounded as though someone had clapped pillows over them.

Someone who is not a disinterested observer of your career but.

But in its absence, there is no reason whatsoever to infer that someone is losing out because a price seems low.

When someone observes an unfamiliar place in the world, they.

The more experience babies have with someone who is going to be emotionally engaged with them, the better off they're going to.

Three words someone else would use to describe me are focused, sincere and quick-witted.

Sweep your someone away with chocolate, flowers, and a romantic getaway.

Both of these books are incredibly helpful to someone like.

If someone asks what you do, you're a professor or a biologist or whatever you wish.

So is lying to someone who then repeats your lie to a federal official.

Then, last summer, someone killed seven of these magnificent creatures in cold blood.

Seeing someone else's sleepy facial contortions does not affect young children or kids with autism.

Three words someone else would use to describe me are inspired, driven and motivating.

Chances of winning without making a purchase are the same as the chances of someone who buys something.

Again, nothing wow-tastic, but more than adequate for someone switching to their first smartphone.

My guess is that the university will hire someone with admissions experience.

Speaking as someone who wades through literally tens-of.

The survivors released a messenger buoy and smoke bombs and waited, hoping desperately that someone would see them.

Sometime, somewhere, someone will generate a cloned human being.

They were quiet heroes, the kind history forgets-until someone remembers.

Someone else using stock tanks for their planting beds.

Someone complained about a teacher using this question and the answer was disputed.

It would be good to have someone who was more smooth without feeling smooth.

The government does not need to be involved if someone decides to trace his ancestry or discover what type of earwax he has.

Life in the treetops is easy if you're a spider monkey, as long as someone keeps an eye out for predators down below.

People are more likely to believe misinformation about someone they see as different from themselves.

Now suppose someone plops a traffic circle in the center of the grid.

If you know someone who needs to hold a fundraiser you should consider a flower bulb fundraiser.

But keep moving, because someone out there is still looking for you.

Someone who cared about the bottom line, but was mission or value focused first.

The higher status someone is, usually, the more power they have.

After spending the night in a hospital room, someone walked me over to another building a couple of blocks away.

How the brain produces the sense of someone present when no one is there.

As soon as this time machine is built, time travel will commence, and continue to exist until someone turns off the machine.

Perhaps you might know someone who is presently growing hops who would give you a root cutting in the dormant.

Such fibers are both light-colored and messy, and so towhead can refer to someone with light or messy hair.

They found that it was far more active when someone was looking at a face rather than a house.

Someone does have to be the leader and someone has to be the follower.

Do tell someone if you are not interested in dating them again.

So it's surprising to see these and then think someone cuts them into actual diamonds.

So, if one of us didn't have the answer to a question, someone else usually did.

The peace of mind that comes from someone trustworthy telling you not to worry may justify the step to you.

Come on, try to rise above your own programming and show some interest in someone other than yourself.

Someone had the idea of bringing in a zydeco band, townspeople showed up to dance and the breakfast took on a life of its own.

It is easy to see when someone is talking too much, but it might be helpful to think of it as not.

It could also signal that the subject is more likely to get divorced than someone with a big smile for the camera.

Someone is always proposing a cup of chai or hot chocolate.

But if you intentionally kill someone with a gun and are arrested, you are charged with murder because you have the mens rea.

It called a solar cross can u help me locate someone if u can't.

But it had to be cut down before it fell down on someone or something.

We are looking for someone who will demonstrate an enthusiasm for student success.

The others were asked to write about why someone might want to open a bank account or keep a diary.

The easier route, as with scanning, is to let someone else do the printing.

Fourth, liking: obviously, you're more likely to extend yourself for someone you like.

It's not the thieves, said someone else, it's the drunken men you have to watch out for.

Only good when someone grapples with an underfed animal or overactive shredder.

How rude is it to have to sit before someone yawning, drinking a can of soda and smacking on.

We need to get rid of this silly notion that there is a moral imperative for someone to come in and intervene".

Someone will make a measurement in a swamp somewhere and simply extrapolate that measurement.

Someone being the editorial staff that a magazine presumably has, or should have.

But notice the top, right next to the lock: it's smashed in, evidence that someone was trying to access the files.

Other students are anxious about writing a letter for someone who has authority over their academic fate.

When confronted with such stimuli, someone who is unfamiliar with them will merely be bemused and ignore them.

Ask students to imagine that someone is coming to visit their town.

Everyone knows that it is virtually impossible to keep secrets, if it is important enough for someone else to want to know them.

Gay was surprised to see someone peering in the store window-a giant of a man with a shaved head and piercing eyes.

Basically a commercial press is looking for someone to write a basic book on my field for.

But someone needs to take the other side of the bargain, and that usually requires a speculator.

Ask if someone can explain what these temperatures mean.

Glad to see someone else avoided weight loss surgery.

There's someone who does our park checks and there's someone who stays behind and does the clinical work.

Mentor wonders if there are no secrets, anyway-and that the only real insult is to make someone invisible.

It is becoming more normal for the well-educated and wealthy to spend a large part of the year in someone else's country.

Fifteen percent of all households include someone with an advanced degree.

But really, who believes that an exhortation to communicate will improve communication for someone who hasn't studied it.

Just because someone has a tattoo doesn't make them an idiot.

Perhaps a daughter is deemed to join another family on marriage and you want someone to care for you when you are old.

Could someone discuss the whole series of problems building up a replicating an evolving system of the first cell.

We decided between ourselves that it describes someone who chooses to put himself at risk to save another.

Anyway, as someone pointed out, in this case in addition to the sharks a handful of piranhas would best represent the situation.

It would take only five minutes of your absence for your cookware to end up in the trash or in someone else's grocery bag.

Now someone must have upset him: rising maize prices could force the price of.

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someone (ˈsʌmˌwʌn, -wən)

—*pron*
	some person; somebody

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