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]

Example Sentences

As the sound of each record has changed in one way or another, the quartet largely attributes their sobriety, mix of personalities and unquenchable thirst to keep making music as the throughlines keeping the ship steady all these years later.

From Los Angeles Times

"We all rely on the bus service in one way or another - to get to appointments, to get to the shops, to get to work, or just to get out."

From BBC

"I really don't think it's helpful when between 30 to 60 parents weigh in with their opinion and it's obviously going to be polarised one way or another," she says.

From BBC

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I’ve been warning everyone for years how much ABC hates Republicans,” she wrote on X. “One way or another, it was always going to inevitably have ramifications.”

From Salon

"I just want it to be resolved. I don't really blame anybody, you just hope that one way or another it will be sorted out."

From BBC

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