somehow or other

Example Sentences

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“The needs are too great. And if we pass a strong package with strong bipartisan support, it will importune the House somehow or other to act, despite the morass they are in.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 16, 2023

“That turned out to be a topic of national and global concern. None of the three of us knew or expected that. So somehow or other, we just stumbled onto the zeitgeist.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023

Traditionally it has been hypothesized that this device somehow or other turns off around the age of puberty.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2023

But the study clearly demonstrates that somehow or other, European’s inflammatory responses to pathogens did change dramatically during the Neolithic, Lachance says.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 6, 2021

I decided that somehow or other we would have to work out a compromise, a way that we could both live in the valley even though not as friends.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien