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either

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adjective

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Recent Examples of either
Adverb
The district did not commit cyberstalking, either, the judge said. Kc Baker, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025 As trade talk swirled around Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk before last year’s draft, the 49ers did not receive a strong enough offer to part with either. Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2025
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 See all Example Sentences for either 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for either
Adverb
  • Its success leads her to rebel, firstly through passionate love affairs with women and then by reclaiming her authorship.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Each of 24 students had to have a science project (with functional practical effects, unfortunately cut for time), and then there had to be enough others present to explore the fair and fill out the gymnasium.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • In another Tuesday morning tweet, the president denied even knowing any the women who have spoken out.
    Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Dec. 2017
Adverb
  • And besides, keeping up with your favorite entertainment shouldn't feel like work.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2025
  • His exit from the playoffs doesn’t subtract from that, and, besides, the Bills-Chiefs AFC Championship Game was entertaining as heck.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The Courtauld added that the painting evidently went under several revisions, and may have been painted in the vibrant, Impressionistic style that preceded the Blue Period.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 10 Feb. 2025
  • His disses and phenomenal momentum certainly helped, but several factors converged.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Some airport terminals may also sell lottery tickets.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Their ability to commute to those in need may also have been compromised.
    Josh Klein, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Caruso ordered hundreds of law enforcement officers and called on the Italian army for backup to stand guard at various checkpoints approaching the mountain to turn anyone away who hadn’t reserved a ski pass, hotel or who lived there.
    Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The ride-hailing company will use Intel’s Mobileye AV tech and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni’s fleet of cars at launch, CEO David Risher revealed in a series of posts on X. Marubeni currently manages over 900,000 vehicles globally through various subsidiaries and joint ventures.
    Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 11 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Modeled on an idea from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat, the agency has drawn sharp criticism from leaders of the financial industry and, more recently, from the new Trump administration.
    Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The Ukrainian military estimates that more than 100,000 Russian soldiers have died in the war, and as many as 750,000 more been injured.
    Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 17 Feb. 2025

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“Either.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/either. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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