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sometime
[ suhm-tahym ]
adverb
- at some indefinite or indeterminate point of time:
He will arrive sometime next week.
- at an indefinite future time:
Come to see me sometime.
- Archaic. sometimes; on some occasions.
- Archaic. at one time; formerly.
adjective
- having been formerly; former:
The diplomat was a sometime professor of history at Oxford.
- being so only at times or to some extent:
Traveling so much, he could never be more than a sometime husband.
- that cannot be depended upon regarding affections or loyalties:
He was well rid of his sometime girlfriend.
sometime
/ ˈʌˌٲɪ /
adverb
- at some unspecified point of time
adjective
- prenominal having been at one time; former
the sometime President
- prenominal occasional; infrequent
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The man found out about the scratcher win while in the store sometime last week, Samaan said.
Ridge was required to apply and interview for the position, which he got sometime in December or January 2015.
Los Angeles Police say the thieves sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning cut through a room next to the gold merchant at 510 S. Broadway.
Its leading authors, who included Vargas Llosa's Colombian friend and sometime rival Gabriel García Márquez - who pioneered the kaleidoscopic magical realism style of writing - became household names and their works were read around the world.
A large quantity of Xanax was found inside the hall sometime before the overdoses, according to three sources with knowledge of conditions at Los Padrinos.
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