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: close to : approximately

It costs something like five dollars.

: somewhat or slightly like

He does look something like his father.

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Some of them were bound to turn out big, and somewhere among them there might even be a nontypical rack something like his. — Al Dawson, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026 Impossible for something like four years so to shoot an entire feature in six days was [exciting]. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026 The scale was astonishing—something like a private Census Bureau but for landlords. — Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026 With awe, the feeling of smallness is inspired by something that makes our own concerns and capacities seem trivial – something like God or the divine. — Robert A. Ballingall, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for something like

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