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either

[ee-ther, ahy-ther] / ˈi ðər, ˈaɪ ðər /
PRONOUN
one or the other
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Bessent, so far, hasn’t been willing to do either.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

“There simply is not much room for either stock prices or EPS to continue rising without some correction or a pause which allows the trendline averages to catch up,” Paulsen contends.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

Michigan State’s Yeargain, writing in the Missouri Law Review in 2020 about fake polls affecting prediction markets, argued that publishing fake polls to influence betting markets was either commodities fraud or wire fraud, or both.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

One of the parents has to either be a citizen themselves or a permanent resident in order for that to happen.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

“No sheets here either, I see,” she said in German to the guard.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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