something else

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: something or someone special or extraordinary

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Bycatch — marine life caught unintentionally while fishers target something else — makes up 2% of the pollock fishery’s total catch. — Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 Someone the brand has had no way to reach reads it, checks the coverage, weighs the cost and the patient leaves with the medicine that was prescribed—or with something else entirely. — Harshit Jain, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 Swaps are derivative contracts where the parties exchange payments or risked based on something else. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 12 Oct. 2026 It’s been caused by somebody else—something else getting in the way or not following road rules, and then crashing into the Waymo. — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for something else

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