SOMEDAY Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

someday

adverb

ˈsəm-ˌdā

Definition of someday

as in eventually

at a later time the dream that we'll get to the other planets someday

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Recent Examples of someday Cawthon, a senior receiver and kick return specialist, will probably laugh about it someday. — Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026 Do you, Jason and Scott Derrickson have an interest in completing that trilogy someday? — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026 Each of them has the capacity to feel terror; each has an experience that someday could be yours. — Elizabeth Nicholas, Vanity Fair, 9 Sep. 2026 Kurt's key takeaways What catches my attention here is that Bedrock has moved beyond showing what an autonomous excavator might be able to do someday. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for someday

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Higher borrowing costs will eventually force a reduction in credit and spending, weighing on economic activity and potentially spilling over into equity markets, Dalio said.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Played 28 of 60 in the COVID season of 2020 and 106 out of 162 in 2023 and 66 out of 161 in the season that ended on Wednesday night with Rays doing to them what somebody always does eventually.

— Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of eventually

Adverb

Elsewhere in the makeup category, after exiting most of its department store distribution and launching on social, de La Faverie said that Bobbi Brown is finally gaining market share.

— Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
The Perry Street litigation finally ended in August 2024 following an undisclosed settlement — just one month after Erica signed the lease for 150 Charles.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of finally

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The state awarded the contract to build in 2017; the project is now expected to be completed sometime in 2029.

— Jay Newman, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
After interviewing the man, Rinehart said authorities determined that the child was born and died sometime between November of 2009 and February of 2010 — about a year before the first statute she was accused of violating went into effect.

— Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of sometime

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The rare show of alignment among fierce rivals was soon countered by comments from Meta’s Zuckerberg and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, both of whom dismissed the slowdown idea.

— Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Now, the full-scale deployment of the ClarosTechUV PFAS destruction system is soon to take place at Daikin’s manufacturing facility in Decatur.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026

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