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: something or someone special or extraordinary

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Tape shoots out and knocks into something that falls into something else and then hits a harpsichord, and someone gets an idea. — Christine Werthman, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026 Being on stage with Anoushka Shankar in my ears was just something else. — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 5 Oct. 2026 The thing starts as this true crime story and becomes something else. — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026 He was held back by something else, a feeling that some awful truth about his familiar, beloved world was now being revealed to him. — Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for something else

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