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English word

someone

A1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /ˈsʌmwʌn/US /ˈsʌmwʌn/
pronoun

a person who is not known or mentioned by name

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Taylor Swift's NYU Commencement Speech (2022) video example

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Someone read stories to you and taught you to dream and offered up some moral code of right and wrong for you to try and live by.

Taylor Swift's NYU Commencement Speech (2022)

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