at one time or another
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In all of this, he’s getting at something powerful but hard to quantify that we all perhaps have felt, if only briefly, at one time or another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Some 70 percent of the city's children were evacuated at one time or another, either abroad or to the west of Ukraine.
From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025
It would appear that he's tried them all at one time or another depending on the challenge staring him in the face.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
The sprawling maze of rugged canyons and rocky hills is dotted with remnants of various human populations that made homes here at one time or another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
Because now she was pretty certain that “bandits” had, at one time or another, “crawled in” to this building back when it was a bank.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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