What's the difference between somehow and whatever?

Somehow


Definition:

  • (adv.) In one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And if the Brexit vote was somehow not respected by Westminster, Le Pen could be bolstered in her outrage.
  • (2) It trickled back to me somehow that, ‘Goddammit, Johnny Depp’s ruining the film!
  • (3) And the idea that it is somehow “unfair” to tax a small number of mostly rich people who were lucky enough to buy houses in central London that have soared in value to over £2m is perverse.
  • (4) This was incredible - Selby somehow hung in there yesterday, taking frames when apparently outclassed, and then when he needed to turn it up today, he did - 13-4 turned it up.
  • (5) Normal biomarkers are inherently unsuitable in a positive search for disorder; instead one must either use abnormal markers or be prepared to search negatively, i.e., to look for and somehow validate the rare absence of a normal marker.
  • (6) The science, he reminds us, is clear, and he wants to somehow rebuild a national consensus.
  • (7) Expecting defeat, but somehow clutching on to hope … Well, Frank [Skinner] and David [Baddiel] wrote that part of the lyrics, but the reason I got them in after the FA asked me to write a song was that I thought it was only worth making if it reflected how it feels to be a football fan.
  • (8) Danielle thudded out a bass beat, somehow keeping her guitar baying at the same time.
  • (9) As Labour has no real polices that I can divine, the idea of making it less testosterone-driven somehow interested me.
  • (10) Moreover, the distinct dissimilarities of neural connections between rodents and primates indicate that the rodent's hippocampal formation might somehow have an undeveloped neural system of memory, or a different memory system from that of primates.
  • (11) Somehow, despite all this, the Obama administration thinks it can “destroy” Isis, though, as the Post noted , the US government has not been able to destroy al-Qaida or any terrorist group in the last decade “through two wars, thousands of drone strikes and hundreds of covert operations around the world.” The only question now is how far this Forever War against Isis goes.
  • (12) There is a normal version of David, but I've seen him before he goes on stage and he somehow has the ability to will himself into something magnetic and incandescent.
  • (13) Somehow, it seemed inevitable that a man called Keane would have the final say.
  • (14) The left back, one of Argentina's few hits at this World Cup, somehow gets to the ball, and pulls it into the centre.
  • (15) When Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals , a series where James made a habit of disappearing in the fourth quarter, it somehow felt like an underdog victory (because nothing screams "true underdogs" like a Dallas-based team bankrolled by a billionaire mogul ).
  • (16) "Somehow, Hayley and Roy developed a chemistry nobody – certainly no one on the show, and certainly not me or David [Neilson, who plays Roy] – dreamed of."
  • (17) If you've somehow missed the multi-million-selling series turned mini-series turned musical by the Scissor Sisters let me tell you how very jealous of you I am.
  • (18) However, despite repeated questions from reporters, Earnest did not rule out Obama approving fast-track without TAA if that combination somehow made it through procedural hurdles in the Senate.
  • (19) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
  • (20) It has somehow managed to escape the curse of Murdoch, who partly owns it.

Whatever


Definition:

  • (pron.) Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
  • (2) But whatever they invested in me, they got in return 10, 20 times more.
  • (3) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
  • (4) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
  • (5) Hemophilia type A or B is due to deficiency in factor VIII C or IX C, but whatever the type and whether the affection is severe or attenuated the risk of hemorrhage after surgery is identical.
  • (6) An integrated approach to the surgical management of diffuse subaortic stenosis has been designed to provide adequate relief of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction whatever the anatomical features encountered at operation.
  • (7) Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Australian policies in refugee crisis Read more Given that Obama – whatever one’s views on his strategy – is not advocating a bigger military contribution, the only difference is that Abbott is “urging” the US and others to do more, which sounds resolute, and Turnbull says he would consider any request if it was made.
  • (8) Whatever else Scott is about, Waverley ends with a vision of Britishness and a British union.
  • (9) EEG arousal diminished as a function of distance, while arousal for direct gaze was always higher than for averted gaze, whatever the distance.
  • (10) Whatever the level of the fine, the judge's remarks are damning."
  • (11) But Zambelis added: "Whatever rebel government emerges, China already has a place in the country business-wise.
  • (12) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
  • (13) Whatever their other faults, most Republicans running for office this year do not share Trump’s unwillingness to condemn the Ku Klux Klan.
  • (14) Reading these latest statistics, it’s crucial that our generation – millennials, Gen Y, whatever we want to call ourselves – abandons this preposterous narrative.
  • (15) Referents (n = 1165) were chosen from subjects who had no such leave, whatever the medical reason, and were matched to cases by the incidence density sampling method.
  • (16) During the night the Government has to do whatever it takes to re-include those amendments – on which they will attach a vote of confidence – otherwise Italians will see their taxes increase again without important compensatory measures being passed.
  • (17) Lack of transparency about the nature of the relationship between police and media also led to speculation and perceptions, whatever the facts, that caused "serious harm".
  • (18) Whatever the lesion, all the rats succeeded in learning the task but some differences appeared in comparison with intact and sham-operated rats.
  • (19) A patient with marked perceptual difficulties but no difficulty whatever in recognizing faces was tested as a control.
  • (20) Uncomfortable questions, which require an answer, whatever the result of the AV vote.

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