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somehow

adverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈsʌmhaʊ//
  • //ˈsʊmhuː//

In one way or another; in a way not yet known or explained; by some means

adverb

  1. 1

    In one way or another; in a way not yet known or explained; by some means

    This problem has to be tackled somehow.

    We don't know how he's still alive after the accident, but somehow he is.

    December 1, 2016, Tom Donaghy writing in The New York Times, Tender Side of Edward Albee It’s not by accident Edward wrote “The Goat,” “The Zoo Story” or “Seascape,” with its two lizards, Sarah and Leslie. In fact, in all of his plays the animal is pretty prominent, somehow or other.

    Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

Etymology

From some + how.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).