somewhere along the line
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› at some moment during a relationship or process: I don't know what went wrong with our relationship, but somewhere along the line we just stopped loving each other.Describing when something happened or will happen
(Definition of somewhere along the line from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- at preposition (TIME)
- be verb (FUTURE)
- for preposition (OCCASION)
- for preposition (TIME/DISTANCE)
- hundred number
- immediately conjunction
- in preposition (DURING)
- movable feast noun
- on preposition (AFTER)
- on preposition (TIME)
- one number, determiner (FUTURE TIME)
- space noun (EMPTY PLACE)
- within preposition, adverb
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