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• So, on the one hand, the U.S. is demanding that more aid rightfully go back into Gaza.
  — CBS News, 5 May 2024
• These were relationships with men who, on the one hand, adored me for my strengths and ambition.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
• The boy debates the merit of each name: on the one hand, chrysalides are green and hard and prone to explode in riots of incandescence; on the other, parrots are green, loud, and obnoxious.
  — Beth Bachmann, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
• So on the one hand, if Prigozhin had been successful, maybe there would have been some way to think about this war being wound down, some armistice, some freezing of conflict at least, maybe even an agreement on a cease-fire.
  — Gregory F. Treverton, Fortune, 5 July 2023
• There have always been two facts in tension: on the one hand, Oppenheimer helped create a weapon of mass destruction that was used to kill hundreds of thousands of people.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 25 July 2023
• Meanwhile, polar bears and brown bears dominate the land — taking down seals and walruses on the one hand and moose and deer on the other — topping the list of large land predators alive on our planet.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
• This means being fair and accurate in reporting, and having a strong wall between news on the one hand and opinion or advocacy on the other.
  — Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2023
• This means being fair and accurate in reporting, and having a strong wall between news on the one hand and opinion or advocacy on the other.
  — Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 June 2024
• Talk is retiring, but it’s being replaced by something that’s very similar to Talk on the one hand, but very different on another.
  — Jake Silverstein Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• Researchers found that, on the one hand, individuals who have low sleep reactivity tend to have fewer problems with sleep when they're stressed.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 6 Aug. 2023
• My dad [Anthony Perkins] was, on the one hand, a real shining light in the genre space, having created one of the more indelible characters in movies, nevermind in horror movies or in crime movies and killer movies.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024
• The movie’s impulses, toward naturalistic observation on the one hand and folkloric archetype on the other, don’t fight each other.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024
• The discontent has underscored a widening divide on a continent that is on the one hand committed to acting on climate change but on the other often deeply divided about how to do it and who should pay for it.
  — Claire Moses, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• Brittle, impossible perfection on the one hand; apocalypse on the other.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• So if in normal times there are basically two things that would constrain firms in their pricing behavior, -- on the one hand, competition, that is fear of losing market shares to their competitors, right?
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
• Europe’s green manufacturers face the lure of attractive US subsidies on the one hand and competition from cheap Chinese products on the other.
  — John Ainger, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
• Faced with climate change on the one hand and the material demands of new energy infrastructure on the other, perhaps humanity will finally figure out how to reuse the gazillions of tons of resources it’s already dug up.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Ultimately, these viral moments shed light on the frustrations and aspirations of the Palestinian people, caught between the conflict with Israel on the one hand and their own unpopular leadership on the other.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 14 July 2023
• Moving forward, there is a deep need to balance between the competing imperatives of sovereignty and security on the one hand, and openness and interoperability on the other.
  — Mirek Dušek, TIME, 26 June 2024
• The only evidence against defendant was the complainants’ testimony, and the result of the court’s rulings, on the one hand, was to bolster their credibility and diminish defendant’s character before the jury.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2024
• The proliferation of marketing solutions related to data collection, processing and reporting, on the one hand, helps marketers understand users and customers better.
  — Jenya Edelberg, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Retrenchment cannot resolve this tension between, on the one hand, opposing war and, on the other, defending egalitarianism and resisting imperialism.
  — Jonathan B. Petkun, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024