somehow

CEFRB1

/ˈsʌmhaʊ/

adverb

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In plain English

01
adverb
In a way that is not known or explained.
02
adverb
Extra detail
In one way or another; in a way not yet known or explained; by some means

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
Have I not loathed to live again and said It would have been far better to be dead, And yet somehow, I know not why, Remained afraid to die!
1895, William Dean Howells, Mortality
Although youngest of the family, he has somehow or other got the entire management of all the others.
1817, Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy

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