Someone
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Featured: A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933) |
- some person.
- Is someone there?
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Usage notes
- Logically related to anyone, everyone, and no one. Becomes no one via negation.
- Did anyone help with the clean-up effort?
- Yes, someone helped yesterday, but no one did today because everyone was too busy.
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