How to Use one way or another in a Sentence

one way or another

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  • When, one way or another, a lot of people watch the work, that’s the cherry on top.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Taylor Swift will find her way back to the apex one way or another.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 23 July 2024
  • This is my job — one way or another, to try to help my children.
    — Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
  • This is my job — one way or another, to try to help my children.
    — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Most people are going to have to face it one way or another.
    — Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 27 June 2024
  • Look, Putin and his men may succeed in killing Navalny and Kara-Murza, one way or another.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The trade deadline still could be crucial for the Angels one way or another.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
  • College athletes have been paid in one way or another for a long time.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The trade-off is that indecision comes with a cost, one way or another.
    — Martha C. White, wsj.com, 16 Oct. 2023
  • All of the answers will not be revealed until the season ends, one way or another.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • These are things that so many of us have experienced in one way or another in our own life.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2023
  • He has been entangled in the legal system in one way or another for most of his adult life.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • People around us who are the same age as we are become impaired one way or another.
    — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Every farmworker is in the same plight, in one way or another.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
  • But one way or another, the other parties in the coalition will have to find a way to work with Mr. Wilders’s Party for Freedom.
    — Claire Moses, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The season ends for both teams, Monday night in Sunrise, one way or another.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2024
  • The new novel has, one way or another, taken Barry 25 years to write.
    — John Self, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
  • But what’s clear from debuting at #1 is that a lot of people are eager to check it out, one way or another.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But one way or another, the 29-year-old playwright seemed destined to shake things up in the nation’s capital.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • In one way or another, this was something that the other women on stage agreed upon.
    — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 7 June 2023
  • This applies in one way or another to every business in Texas.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 12 June 2023
  • Those people are going to be looking for jobs one way or another.
    — George Bradt, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Trantalis predicts the stockade will end up opening its doors to the homeless one way or another.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2024
  • Musk seems determined to duke it out with Zuckerberg, one way or another.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
  • As for East Palestine, this town of 5,000 people has always revolved, in one way or another, around these train tracks.
    — Brad Mielke, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But climate change is going to cost us dearly, one way or another.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Trust that everything will work out, one way or another.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But one way or another, the United States is finally getting back into the Moon game.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2023
  • But one way or another, Israel was determined to change the equation with Hezbollah.
    — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Most of us lie somewhere in between, with tendencies that lean one way or another, depending on the situation.
    — Gayatri Panda, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024

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