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somewhere along the line

adv

Definitions

  1. At some point in a process or in a series of events

    At some point in a process or in a series of events; at some unspecified or unknown time; eventually.

    • [I]t was only a question of time, after all, when the forgery would be discovered. […] "Somewhere along the line that check has been stolen and raised to twenty-five thousand dollars," he remarked.
    • "I think it is quite obvious," he said, "that the current atomic-arms race can not go on forever. Somewhere along the line […] we will have acquired all the weapons we would possibly need."
    • Somewhere along the line I knew there’d be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for somewhere along the line. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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