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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
sometime
/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/
adjective1 of 2
at an unknown time in the future
- “Bad people sometimes support good things for the wrong reason.”Tatoeba
- “I get emotional sometimes after a nice game of chess.”Tatoeba
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adverb2 of 2
At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)