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• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024