one way or another

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Unless the Fed abandons that risk-management framework, focusing on a narrower inflation measure would not materially change policy if inflation risks are skewed one way or another.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

While traders are waiting for Iran’s response to the U.S. proposal, investors are “seemingly confident that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen soon one way or another, for otherwise crude oil would not have fallen.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

The extra cash prompted many to cut personal income taxes in one way or another.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

“It’s over one way or another after that,” a White House source explained.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2026

Popper has criticized Freudianism for claims and predictions which, though perhaps comforting or suggestive in one way or another, are, like the above statements, largely unfalsifiable.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos