one way or another

idiom

: by some method
He vowed that he would succeed (in) one way or another.

Examples of one way or another in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This is extremely essential, to allow the child to start to recover, one way or another. Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024 Clarity with Thompson — one way or another — will define this offseason. Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024 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 People around us who are the same age as we are become impaired one way or another. Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 Dupuis, in an interview, stressed that the initial random-sampling method was inconclusive — meaning there’s no reason to be confident one way or another about whether the threshold was met. Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024 This baby’s coming one way or another, and the folly of trying to squeeze in a sushi feast as the contractions accelerate makes for an unforgettably original and howlingly funny sequence. Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024 This is my job — one way or another, to try to help my children. Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 6 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

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“One way or another.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one%20way%20or%20another. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.

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