How to Use all-or-nothing in a Sentence

all-or-nothing

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  • This smoldering focus is a reflection of their all-or-nothing approach to life.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The way to extirpate this bias is by realizing that the concept of death is not an all-or-nothing matter, but rather a spectrum—something that comes in degrees.
    Susana Monsó, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The bottom line is that running an ingredient household doesn't need to be an all-or-nothing thing, and there are ways to stock your kitchen that work for everyone in your family.
    Suzanne Hayes, Parents, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The Dodgers’ offense has had its own – much milder – dry spells spaced out in an all-or-nothing pattern over the past month.
    Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 14 June 2024
  • Remember, though, that these are not all-or-nothing ranges.
    Emily Abbate, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The more the Bruins court history, the more all-or-nothing success becomes.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The Moon is entering Scorpio and your all-or-nothing 8th house, which covers many of the most serious aspects of life.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Rahman notes that apps do not have to take an all-or-nothing approach to integrity checking.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Sanguine Celtics fans don’t usually like to deal in such absolutes or all-or-nothing stakes.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Curt Miller urged his team to play with an all-or-nothing sentiment before the Sparks closed their four-game homestand Tuesday night.
    Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024
  • Campbell’s all-or-nothing, go-for-it mentality hurt him in that title game.
    Steve Silverman, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, her all-or-nothing spirit, inspiring to some but grating to others, prompted her to take her goats to the streets of New York City last fall to raise attention to her plight.
    Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But saving for college isn’t an all-or-nothing decision.
    The New York Times, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But thanks, in part, to the pandemic, the stark all-or-nothing choices mothers have faced around working or not are becoming more flexible.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • But her all-or-nothing work ethic can sometimes cause a difference of opinion, as fans learned in her most recent post on Instagram.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The Heat will issue its injury report for Friday’s all-or-nothing game on Thursday afternoon.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Most of these projects are all-or-nothing, meaning local governments rent or buy the properties and use them entirely for shelter space.
    Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
  • Advertisement The offspring don’t have to look far to see that if they are caught and extradited to the U.S., choosing to go to trial is a high-risk, all-or-nothing gamble that rarely ends with walking free.
    Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Support for democracy and human rights is not an all-or-nothing proposition.
    Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Your partnerships tend to be all-or-nothing — or rather, become possessive instead.
    Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2024
  • An all-or-nothing approach to security simply doesn’t work.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Reducing your plastic footprint is not an all-or-nothing approach, Jackson says.
    Jerica Pender, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The Moon is in your all-or-nothing 8th house, leaving you extremely sensitive to everyone else's behavior.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2023
  • Don’t get trapped in an all-or-nothing mentality: Some salt is important for flavor, just use it strategically.
    Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Share Success of Li Auto underlines risks of an all-or-nothing approach to the shift to electric vehicles Don’t write off hybrid electric vehicles.
    Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2023
  • So tuning out all-or-nothing diet mindsets can improve our nutrition and benefit us in deeper ways.
    Oona Hanson, CNN, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The company had originally planned to make Slack AI an all-or-nothing proposition, meaning customers had to either pay for all their Slack-using employees to use the features or none.
    Ina Fried, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
  • People sometimes take an all-or-nothing approach to vulnerability with new friends, but small steps build trust most reliably.
    Emma Nadler, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
  • While copyright law tends to favor an all-or-nothing approach, scholars at Harvard Law School have proposed new models of joint ownership that allow artists to gain some rights in outputs that resemble their works.
    Robert Mahari, Fortune, 17 June 2023
  • The strategy of all-or-nothing competition with China has meant abiding the growth of other illiberal governments in the region.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023

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