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    "etymologies": [
      "From Middle English sumtymes, somtymes, som tymes, equivalent to sometime + -s (adverbial suffix). Compare West Frisian somstiden (\u201csometimes\u201d), Dutch somtijds, somwijlen (\u201csometimes\u201d)."
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        "name": "Adverb",
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            "mean": "On certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always. \nSynonyms: at one time or another, at times, every so often, from time to time, occasionally, once in a while; see also Thesaurus:occasionally\nSometimes I sit and think, but mostly I just sit.\na. 1667,  Jeremy Taylor,  \u201cAgenda; or, Things to Be Done\u201d, in  The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., volume III, London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis, published 1836, page 730:It is good that we sometimes be contradicted, and ill though of, and that we always bear it well, even when we deserve to be well spoken of\u202f: perfect peace and security cannot be had in this world.\n1897 December (indicated as 1898),  Winston Churchill,  chapter V, in  The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., \u2192OCLC:We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.\n2013 June 8,  \u201cObama goes troll-hunting\u201d, in  The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll."
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            "mean": "(obsolete) On a certain occasion in the past; once. \nSynonyms: at one time, in the past, yestertide; see also Thesaurus:formerly\nc. 1599\u20131602 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  \u201cThe Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke\u201d, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00a0 (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, , lines 46\u201349, page 152, column 2:What art thou that v\u017furp\u2019\u017ft this time of night, / Together with that Faire and Warlike forme / In which the Maie\u017fty of buried Denmarke / Did \u017fometimes march\u202f: By Heauen I charge thee \u017fpeake.\n1611,  The Holy Bible,\u00a0 (King James Version), London:    Robert Barker,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, Ephesians 5:8:For yee were sometimes darkenesse, but now are yee light in the Lord: walke as children of light  \n1624,  Democritus Junior ,  \u201cRemedies against di\u017fcontents\u201d, in  The Anatomy of Melancholy:\u00a0, 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, \u2192OCLC, partition 2, section 3, member 7, page 351:They detract, \u017fcoffe and raile \u017faith one, & barke at mee on every \u017fide, but I, like that Albanian dog \u017fometimes given to Alexander for a pre\u017fent, vindico me ab illis \u017folo contemptu, I ly \u017ftill and \u017fleep, vindicate my \u017felfe by contempt alone."
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            "mean": "(obsolete) Former; sometime.\n1595 December 9 (first known performance),  William Shakespeare,  \u201cThe life and death of King Richard the Second\u201d, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, , lines 54\u201355:Farewell old Gaunt, thy \u017fometimes brothers wife / With her companion Greefe, mu\u017ft end her life."
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