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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Each side accused the other of starting the latest border flare-up and traded blame for the clashes.
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Helen Regan, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
The lead horse is upright, tense, its ears perked, while the other hangs its head, as if thinking deeply, horses think many things and are the closest of all animals to philosophers.
—Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
One deed sits stubbornly beside the other.
—Kathryn Paige Harden, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
There’s a chapter in the book talking about all this, looking at the range of possibilities and challenges that exist for places close in to the sun, such as Mercury, to the other extreme, far-out places such as Neptune and even further afield.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2025
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Helen Regan, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
The lead horse is upright, tense, its ears perked, while the other hangs its head, as if thinking deeply, horses think many things and are the closest of all animals to philosophers.
—Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
One deed sits stubbornly beside the other.
—Kathryn Paige Harden, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
There’s a chapter in the book talking about all this, looking at the range of possibilities and challenges that exist for places close in to the sun, such as Mercury, to the other extreme, far-out places such as Neptune and even further afield.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2025
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“The other.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20other. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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