the other
noun
1
: the person or thing that remains or that has not been shown or mentioned yet
I held on with one hand and waved with the other.
Each of them looked at the other.
2
: an opposite place or thing
We moved from one side of town to the other.
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Well, how’s this one going to be different from the other?
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 June 2025
Sandwiched between the ocean and the Oregon Coast Range, U.S. Route 101 traces the state’s entire coastline, with wide beaches and jagged sea stacks on one side of the road and thickets of evergreen forest on the other.
—Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 17 June 2025
Heavy rare earth elements are extremely close to each other in terms of their atomic weights, making the process to separate each from the other at sufficient purity levels for commercial or military applications extremely taxing.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 June 2025
This leads to one person feeling increasingly unseen, while the other feels unfairly accused or confused about where the frustration is coming from.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 June 2025
Sandwiched between the ocean and the Oregon Coast Range, U.S. Route 101 traces the state’s entire coastline, with wide beaches and jagged sea stacks on one side of the road and thickets of evergreen forest on the other.
—Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 17 June 2025
Heavy rare earth elements are extremely close to each other in terms of their atomic weights, making the process to separate each from the other at sufficient purity levels for commercial or military applications extremely taxing.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 June 2025
This leads to one person feeling increasingly unseen, while the other feels unfairly accused or confused about where the frustration is coming from.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for the other
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“The other.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20other. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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