somewhere along the line
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somewhere along the line
adverb somewhere down the line
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At some point in a process or in a series of events; at some unspecified or unknown time; eventually.
[I]t was only a question of time, after all, when the forgery would be discovered. […] "Somewhere along the line that check has been stolen and raised to twenty-five thousand dollars," he remarked.
Similar: at some point, somewhen
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