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someone

[ suhm-wuhn, -wuhn ]

pronoun

  1. some person; somebody.


someone

/ ˈsʌmˌwʌn; -wən /

pronoun

  1. some person; somebody
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of someone1

Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325; some, one
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I’m not Mexican American, but I was deeply touched as someone who exists as a part of a diaspora.

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While it’s unclear what prompted the fight, police said that someone fired a gun at one point, but there was no indication that anyone was shot or that any property was damaged.

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"I want someone who can lead from the front on and off the field - someone who would be playing most of the time, almost every game," Brook said.

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“Giraffe are associated with someone who plans, who sees far, because of their height,” she says.

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We know he didn't read a book about it, so at some point, someone told Trump that the country was very wealthy after the Civil War because it ran surpluses.

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