or but
Example Sentences
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“Ideally it is not an either or, but appeasing both ends,” the Western ambassador said.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2023
"One of the original objectives when The Wine Society was established in 1874, was to introduce 'wines hitherto unknown, or but little known in this country'," says Ewan Murray, its public relations manager.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2021
Even though I found both the fourth and fifth book disappointing, I will almost certainly either preorder the sixth book or but it the moment it hits shelves.
From Forbes ● Apr. 26, 2015
That nearly 100-year-old publication instructs sentence drafters to “enclose parenthetic expressions between commas” and to “place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause.”
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2014
If there’s no and or but in between, use a semi- colon instead.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
