How to Use for better or (for) worse in a Sentence

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• His evil-doing becomes his untimely undoing and merely bridges gaps to allow other, more powerful forces of change (for better or worse) to rise around him.
  — EW.com, 4 Oct. 2024
• But, that was the house that built me, for better or for worse.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
• Some called him, for better or worse, the Black James Bond.
  — Anita Gates, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• And the nightmare at the core of The Village, for better or worse, has aged well.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 July 2024
• Down on his knees, for better or for worse, David was very much alive.
  — Keren Blankfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• And then there are the species whose common names just … don’t seem to fit, for better or worse.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2023
• Once the Games start and the athletes are on the court or off the blocks, these issues tend to be brushed aside, for better or worse.
  — Joshua Keating, Vox, 26 July 2024
• This day could bring a surprise or two, for better or for worse.
  — Tarot.com, Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2024
• Whether that will be for better or worse is anyone’s guess.
  — Mario Aguilar, STAT, 11 May 2023
• As women, we’re taught, for better or worse, to be agreeable and, above all, to be a good friend.
  — Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
• So for better or worse, this album and this song really set the tone for a lot of what was to come with the genre.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 6 June 2023
• The two are linked, for better or worse, for the foreseeable future, and this season and the next few will be telling.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2023
• The show also has a lot to say about loneliness and how that can shape us for better or worse.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 May 2023
• Odds are that other guests who aren’t used to your home will notice this one, too—for better or for worse.
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2024
• In the age of social media, her 25-year-old questions feel, for better or worse, new again.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
• There’s clearly an appetite for it, for better or for worse.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
• No one believes in Biden more than Biden himself, for better or worse.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 14 May 2024
• Public ass grabbing, on the other hand, is back—for better or for worse.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2024
• These are the movies everyone was talking about at Cannes this year — for better or worse.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 29 May 2023
• And as David Blum pointed out, for better or worse, his Brat Pack article helped ignite the movie and the careers of the cast.
  — Carl Kurlander, Deadline, 18 June 2024
• There are so many things that could change if more people voted (for better or worse is up to debate).
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• On the heels of its inclusion in the Paris Olympics, breaking has, for better or worse, been in the public discourse a lot lately.
  — Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
• But celebrity chat shows, for better or worse, have endured.
  — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 20 Dec. 2023
• The stakes are high, and the characters wield their power with intention, for better or for worse.
  — Whizy Kim, Vox, 23 July 2024
• What campaign messages have stuck – for better or worse?
  — Anthony Salvanto, Kabir Khanna, Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2022
• And for better or worse, Coinbase is increasingly a part of those trends.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 20 Apr. 2023
• Part of the hair loss is related to age and genetics, but stress (or lack thereof) can change things for better or worse.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 3 Apr. 2021
• Though nowhere near the pack racing days of the turn of the century, Sunday’s closing laps were a reminder – for better or worse – what that era was like.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2023
• But the following 22 looks (three of which belonged to the members of boygenius) stood out more than most, for better or worse.
  — The Styles Desk, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• That said, the evening's impact on their standings, for better or worse, is politically irrelevant to the contest for the White House.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024