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Definitions for somehow
ˈsʌmˌhaʊsome·how

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. somehow, someway, someways, in some way, in some manneradverb

    in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means

    "they managed somehow"; "he expected somehow to discover a woman who would love him"; "he tried to make is someway acceptable"

  2. somehowadverb

    for some unspecified reason

    "It doesn't seem fair somehow"; "he had me dead to rights but somehow I got away with it";

Wiktionary

  1. somehowadverb

    In one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Somehowadjective

    One way or other; I know not how.

    Etymology: some and how.

    The vesicular cells may be for receiving the arterial and nervous juices, that, by their action upon one another, they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length of every fibril. George Cheyne.

ChatGPT

  1. somehow

    Somehow is an adverb that is used to indicate an uncertain method or manner in which something occurs or is accomplished. It implies that the means or reasons behind it may not be clear or easily explainable.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Somehowadverb

    in one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'somehow' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2378

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'somehow' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2031

  3. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'somehow' in Adverbs Frequency: #184

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of somehow in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of somehow in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of somehow in a Sentence

  1. Lynn Julian Crisci:

    I’d never done anything wrong, but somehow the contract made me feel like I already had several strikes against me.

  2. Lloyd Austin:

    It just seemed incomprehensible to me that there were no ramifications for him aside from, I assume, just being embarrassed, can you imagine anyone not getting fired for that kind of mismanagement ? But somehow he survived.

  3. Robert Phillips:

    There's no evidence that's worthy of presenting even to a grand jury that Jimmy Fennell was somehow involved.

  4. Dee Wallace:

    If I had never done anything else with my life, creating my daughter would be enough, i always took her to every location and we had wonderful memories we created together. Somehow, I made it to almost every performance, ballgame, and recital. I was even homeroom mom for seven years. Best part of my life.

  5. Joshua Coleman:

    That's probably some kind of a persistence of misogyny or patriarchy or something in that camp -- that the idea of a man taking on his wife's last name would be somehow considered problematic.

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