one way or another

1. Also, one way or the other. Somehow, in some fashion, as in One way or another I'm sure we'll meet again, or He wasn't sure how to go about building a wall, but he was sure he would manage in one way or the other. [Mid-1500s]

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“Jon creates a team that all trust each other so much that when we have ideas, he’s willing to try them or trust us to tell him if he’s gone too far one way or another,” Brooks says.

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“Curses? Poppycock! And what if there were such a thing? Everyone’s cursed one way or another, what? One fellow has bad eyesight and howls at the moon. This one suffers heartburn; that one’s a terrible dancer.”

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“Well, I am going to make an impression, one way or another. And I cannot take one minute less than an hour and three-quarters to do it.”

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“One way or another, you’ll find out.”

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One way or another, they would have let me in anyway—I think!

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