"somehow similar" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe two or more items or ideas that share similarities, but are also distinct from one another. For example, "The projects are somehow similar, but have different goals."
on algorithms called contractors that are somehow similar to propagators.
His aesthetic background is, I feel, somehow similar to mine.
Somehow, similar views on tax policy and the reliability of globally-scattered weather stations inhabit the same people.
It is clarified that different materials have somehow similar mechanisms for electrochemical hydrogen storage, which is initiated by hydrogen dissociation, surface adsorption and probably diffusing deep within the bulk material.
So when Frictional asked Brighton-based developer the Chinese Room to come onboard to make the sequel to the original, the team knew they had to make something different – and yet somehow similar to its predecessor.
However, expecting terrorists to attack in the same way as previously is the same error armed forces always seem to make in thinking that the next war will be somehow similar to the last.
"HIV and GBV-C somehow use similar sites and similar mechanisms for replication," Manns speculates--meaning, he adds, that they may not be able to replicate in the same cells simultaneously.
It creates a new instance of a object and it's somehow syntactically similar to "!" and that's about it as far as the manual is concerned.
She instead tends to lump many things together: Camouflaging animals hiding from predators are grouped with divers in expensive gear enjoying colorful fish; memories that disappear from dementia somehow are similar to writings that are made to disappear by redacting censors.
Consistency: The result of the combination should be somehow, very similar to all combined single clustering algorithm results.
The columns of cases seemed to stretch endlessly upwards and somehow a similar effect is created in the lobby of the ride.
