one time or another
Example Sentences
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“I’ve run every leg at one time or another but I liked starting today — it felt more powerful putting us in front,” Scoggins said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026
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
Practically every working actor of some repute has offhandedly mentioned their interest in directing a film at one time or another.
From Salon • Jan. 1, 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
He had wondered, as had most people at one time or another, precisely why an android bounced helplessly about when confronted by an empathy-measuring test.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
