How to Use one way or another in a Sentence
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Those storms then get pushed one way or another.
—Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
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But one way or another, that’s about to change.
—Sam McDowell 21, Kansas City Star, 21 Nov. 2025
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This is my job—one way or another, to try to help my children.
—Alessandra De Tommasi, Vanity Fair, 2 Mar. 2026
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That’s what most people want to know one way or another.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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This is my job — one way or another, to try to help my children.
—Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
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This is my job − one way or another, to try to help my children.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 17 June 2025
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My ideas come from what’s going on in my life, one way or another.
—Sophie Brooks, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
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But changes are coming one way or another; that much seems clear.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 21 July 2025
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Those who wait until the last minute could pay for it, one way or another.
—Tim Pratte, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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It was aimed at trying to pull a lever on the culture one way or another.
—Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 18 Dec. 2024
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Three years are likely going to pass in your life one way or another.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
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College athletes have been paid in one way or another for a long time.
—Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
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Taylor Swift will find her way back to the apex one way or another.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 23 July 2024
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The structures have a lot of needs and were going to change one way or another.
—Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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Now the Cubs are going to be forced to pay the price one way or another.
—Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
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One game isn’t going to change the season, one way or another.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
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The costs are passed on, one way or another, just as the textbooks predict.
—Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 28 Feb. 2026
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The costs are going to increase one way or another.
—Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 28 Mar. 2026
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And one way to do that would be to hire people who had contact with them one way or another.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2026
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When, one way or another, a lot of people watch the work, that’s the cherry on top.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
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People around us who are the same age as we are become impaired one way or another.
—Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
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Conditions can change or the data may not show a clear trend one way or another.
—Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2024
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The Tigers will have to make a bold decision one way or another.
—Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
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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
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The most radical changes all concern food and drink in one way or another.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2026
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And that’s the thing—love it or loathe it, pumpkin spice sneaks its way into our lives one way or another.
—Lanee Lee, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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So even if the genre is shifting one way or another, the anchor to the entire show is him.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026
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The slate sets the table for that streak to continue, one way or another.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
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The trade-off is that indecision comes with a cost, one way or another.
—Martha C. White, wsj.com, 16 Oct. 2023
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Every farmworker is in the same plight, in one way or another.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
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