something like

adverb

approximately

“It sounds something like what she might have said.”

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Meanings

adverbsomething like (not comparable)
  1. idiomaticnot comparableapproximately

    It sounds something like what she might have said.

    1 more example

    And it’s daunting because each segment has to tell a full, complete story in something like six minutes while doing justice to revered source material and including the non-stop laughs and genius gags that characterized The Simpsons in its god-like prime.

    2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 15 Aug 2012
phrase
  1. datedinformalA fine example or specimen of something.

    "I say!" exclaimed Scrubb. "That's something like! Think of sleeping in a bed again."

    1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
    1 more example

    When they had done, she gave Ashiepattle a whistle, and told him how to use it. If he blew into the one end of it, everything which he wished far away would be scattered to all sides, but if he blew into the other end it would all come together again; and if the whistle were lost or was taken from him, he had only to wish for it and it would come back to him. That is something like a whistle, thought Ashiepattle.

    1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 173
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