as in then
in addition to what has been said
you won't convince them, and, in fact, I don't agree either!
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as in any
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Recent Examples of either
Matthew Continetti, National Review, 7 Dec. 2024
There is either—Galtung notes that this is the most important distinction—a person who acts to commit the violence or there is not.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
Rachel Weiner, Tom Jackman and Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2022
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Now there are murmurs from the Senate that Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense — veteran, author, advocate, and television host Pete Hegseth — might not have 50 votes either.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 7 Dec. 2024
There is either—Galtung notes that this is the most important distinction—a person who acts to commit the violence or there is not.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
Adjective
But some judges criticized the either-jail-or-probation sentencing aspect of the parading charge.
—Rachel Weiner, Tom Jackman and Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2022
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Researchers then tried to verify those findings by analyzing aerial and satellite images from Google Earth.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 5 Dec. 2024
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The gunman then walked closer to Thompson, firing more times before fleeing.Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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No one, after all, would be any the wiser: Hillary would coast to victory, so Democrats would continue running the government; FISA materials are highly classified, so they’d be kept under wraps.Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Dec. 2017
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In another Tuesday morning tweet, the president denied even knowing any the women who have spoken out.Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Dec. 2017
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The Russians are juggling the materiel and manpower demands of the long-running war, punitive Western sanctions, low oil prices, high interest rates, inflation, a labor shortage, endemic corruption, and much more besides.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
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Murderbot wouldn’t care, and besides, there are more books to write.Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
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Thompson started at UnitedHealth Group in 2004, and over the next two decades climbed up the ranks, working in several departments before taking up his most recent role overseeing its health insurance unit.Donovan Slack, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
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Snow squalls are short while a snowstorm could last for several hours or days.Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2024
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Notre-Dame was also a wreck during the 19th century when a young French architect named Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was hired to save it from ruin.Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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His willingness to play short also might reflect the ability of Buster Posey, the team’s new president of baseball operations, to connect with players.Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 6 Dec. 2024
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There’s reliable evidence that laughter improves various aspects of mental, emotional and physical health.Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2024
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The weekend household consists of various aristocrats, plutocrats and tycoons of the age.Louis J. Esterhazy, WWD, 8 Dec. 2024
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To Schilling, Hill, and their colleagues, this means that although predictive deep learning programs have their uses, the burden of proof needs to be much more rigorous when using them in situations such as medical research.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Dec. 2024
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Research conducted by the Urban Institute found that medical debt is more common in the South and among people in low-income ZIP codes.Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Either.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/either. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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