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either

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adjective

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Recent Examples of either
Adverb
For better and worse, this year’s Globes didn’t really bother to do either. David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025 Judging by the number of hip-hop elders who’ve dropped a project this year—Eminem, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre, to name a few—Xzibit won’t be getting off stage anytime soon either. Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
But some judges criticized the either-jail-or-probation sentencing aspect of the parading charge. Rachel Weiner, Tom Jackman and Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2022 See all Example Sentences for either 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for either
Adverb
  • Make a list of these communications, then enlist the help of an AI tool like ChatGPT to create templates for each.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Looking like the cross between a spermatozoon and a tadpole, this needy, frail little infant is wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes, resting on the dresser and then the drawer of poor Jack Nance’s apartment in an industrial hellscape.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • No one, after all, would be any the wiser: Hillary would coast to victory, so Democrats would continue running the government; FISA materials are highly classified, so they’d be kept under wraps.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Dec. 2017
  • In another Tuesday morning tweet, the president denied even knowing any the women who have spoken out.
    Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Dec. 2017
Adverb
  • For all the battle scars, Morris can have a childlike excitement about being part of an Oscar campaign and the chance to give a gift to her son besides.
    Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
  • And besides, by the time the 31st arrives, people are holiday-seasoned out, and New Year’s feels more like a Christmas coda.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Some of the bills filed in the last week, including several by Republicans, would eliminate the public benefit charge without explaining exactly how that could be done.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2025
  • But the detectives never learned — until Wallace told them — that Wallace worked with several of the women at a Taco Bell on Sharon Amity Road; that one of his victims was the roommate of his then-girlfriend, while another, Brandi Henderson, lived with one of his best friends.
    Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
Adverb
  • Anthony's younger brother, Justin Mitchell, also died.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • There is also some evidence that learning cursive benefits the brain.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The 30-year-old has been linked to several AL East clubs at various times this winter, including the Blue Jays, Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Eventually, those rights coalesced under the Conan Doyle Estate Ltd., which is overseen by various family members.
    Alec Nevala-Lee, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
Adverb
  • This gets into the Dolphins doing more wrong last season than just in the standings.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Color us doubtful of that explanation, which would be a little more believable if either Trump or Alito had given us much reason to take them at their word or assume good faith.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025

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“Either.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/either. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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