Definitions
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- noun The quality of being
something else .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Finally they slowed to a point where everyone experi-enced a brief instant of somewhere-elseness and nausea.
The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Finally they slowed to a point where everyone experi-enced a brief instant of somewhere-elseness and nausea.
The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Finally they slowed to a point where everyone experienced a brief instant of somewhere-elseness and nausea.
The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Finally they slowed to a point where everyone experienced a brief instant of somewhere-elseness and nausea.
The End of The Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Finally they slowed to a point where everyone experi-enced a brief instant of somewhere-elseness and nausea.
The End Of The Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Based on an exceptionally tricky 2003 mystery novel by Dennis Lehane, "Shutter Island" wears its something-elseness proudly, even defiantly.
NYT > Home Page By TERRENCE RAFFERTY 2010
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