quite something
noun
: a major event
It was quite something for a small-town boy to be interviewed for the national news.
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Ryan, who also serves as executive producer, writer, and showrunner, laughed when asked in a separate interview about his first pass on Basso; the beard was quite something.
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Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026
The fact that these applications are all immediately accessible to people without the need for specialized training is quite something.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2026
Those early days were quite something, and to know that moment meant something to you all these years on truly humbles me.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2025
Yet as the club from England’s Second City find themselves in this season’s Premier League title race — despite the continued downplaying of it from within — the transformation at Villa Park is quite something.
—Gregg Evans, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2025
The journey Grace goes on from considering Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell) one big walking liability to offering him the job as her second-in-command is quite something.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
To be in the presence of this iconoclast was quite something.
—Ellie Goulding, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
That would be quite something, but most independent economists expect more headwinds from tariffs than tailwinds from tax cuts and deregulation.
—Christopher Smart, Time, 10 Aug. 2025
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Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026
The fact that these applications are all immediately accessible to people without the need for specialized training is quite something.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2026
Those early days were quite something, and to know that moment meant something to you all these years on truly humbles me.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2025
Yet as the club from England’s Second City find themselves in this season’s Premier League title race — despite the continued downplaying of it from within — the transformation at Villa Park is quite something.
—Gregg Evans, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2025
The journey Grace goes on from considering Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell) one big walking liability to offering him the job as her second-in-command is quite something.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
To be in the presence of this iconoclast was quite something.
—Ellie Goulding, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
That would be quite something, but most independent economists expect more headwinds from tariffs than tailwinds from tax cuts and deregulation.
—Christopher Smart, Time, 10 Aug. 2025
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“Quite something.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quite%20something. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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