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either

[ee-ther, ahy-ther] / ˈi ðər, ˈaɪ ðər /
PRONOUN
one or the other
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Now I’m down to the wire on either purchasing a replacement or paying capital-gains tax and depreciation recapture.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

“Probably 99% of these books are meant to trick customers into buying something that is either plagiarized or filled with misinformation or incredibly thin content that was generated by an LLM,” Hunter said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Thatcher isn’t so different from De Palma’s muses either.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

A third study followed approximately 600 of the original 1,000 participants who had been assigned either digoxin or placebo.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

Almost every night after dinner, she puts her phone on speaker and talks to either my aunt or Grandma while she washes the dishes.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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