"somewhy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1864, Robert Browning, “Mr. Sludge, \"The Medium\"”, in Wikisource, line 505, retrieved 2012-01-18:",
          "text": "Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn\n What some was, somewhere, somewhen, somewhy?",
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          "ref": "1988, William Morris, 1924, quotee, edited by Thomas P. Riggio, Letters to Women: New Letters, Reprint edition, University of Illinois Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 179:",
          "text": "I loved them both—but not so very much else in the book—but I read them over twice & thought—somewhy—of Highland Park & our quaint little trips to Los Angles^([sic]) & elsewhere thereabouts on the street car.",
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          "ref": "2003, Cameron Royce Jess, Bearer of the Chose Seed (Fiction), Inscape Publications, →ISBN, page 15:",
          "text": "Somewhy I've always had this stupid idea that something or something or somebody awful is waiting here for me.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2008, Margaret Feinberg, “Bring Them to Me”, in The Sacred Echo, Zondervan, →ISBN, page unk:",
          "text": "But somehow, somewhy, he did something and that woman knew it. And somehow, somewhy on a whole lot of other days he doesn't do anything we can see ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2011, Issac Marion, Warm Bodies (Fiction), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 92:",
          "text": "Or is it actually him? Still holding on somewhere, somehow, somewhy.",
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        "(rare) For some reason"
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          "word": "ial"
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          "sense": "for some reason",
          "word": "jakoś"
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          "roman": "počemu-to",
          "sense": "for some reason",
          "word": "почему-то"
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          "roman": "čomus'",
          "sense": "for some reason",
          "word": "чомусь"
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      "ipa": "/ˈsʌmwai/"
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      "sense": "for some reason",
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      "sense": "for some reason",
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      "roman": "počemu-to",
      "sense": "for some reason",
      "word": "почему-то"
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