somesuch

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After being ignored for a while, it wastes power replacing the text you were reading with a picture of Emily Dickinson or somesuch, and you can't get back to your text without executing a two-handed buttonpress.

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  • The young fireman offered up a theory three nights out that Rosa's whistle was called a function controller or somesuch, and that when it sounds off drumlins do what the Gaeans really designed them to do, and not what we numbskulled Earthmen try to make them do. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2002
  • We talked about heirloom beans, or somesuch-fifty bucks a pound!! —  communicatrix
  • DVD Decrypter or somesuch, without purposely removing the audio, then you can bet there's audio in there. —  VideoHelp.com Forum
  • Sensitivities to a particular taste or somesuch (bitterness, as mentioned) are much less complex and clearer than the "obvious" case of height. —  Library of Economics and Liberty
  • I know that some of you out there would love to add "stand trial for war crimes" or somesuch to this list, but what we were trying to do was make a a serious, honest effort at assessing W. 's strengths, not mock the guy or kick him on his way out the door. —  FP Passport
 

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