How to Use one way or another in a Sentence

one way or another

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Like it or not, hazardous materials need to be shipped around the country one way or another.
    Dante Chinni, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • At its best, this film can stand as a reminder that every act of kindness, every life saved, is a mitzvah one way or another.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This year resembles the end of a first act of a play: Various subplots have been set in motion, and Act II—the year to come—will resolve them, one way or another.
    William A. Galston, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2023
  • There is no bigger domino waiting to fall, one way or another, at Utah than Rising.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Not for the first time in his career, Musk had made things worse for himself by his refusal to acknowledge obligations laid down, one way or another, by the law.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 Feb. 2024
  • There are some other notable issues that don’t affect the quality of the cook but may sway consumers one way or another.
    Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Being perceived by voters as a party that gets things done helps win elections – and centrists are often the ones whose votes are up for grabs, one way or another.
    Matt Harris, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
  • There’s very little differences here and there, maybe on technique and things like that, but to me, there’s really not drastic things one way or another.
    Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023

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