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either/or

pronoun as in either

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I think, culturally, we have this knee-jerk habit where everything is either-or.

From Los Angeles Times

I'm not one of those either-or people, but I can make a stronger case that we have our own homegrown traditions of reaction and authoritarianism that we need to take seriously.

From Salon

“It shouldn't be an either-or. We should be able to use both.”

From BBC

As always, news outlets oversimplify issues into a polarized either-or option when the truth is much more nuanced.

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We often think of ourselves in an “either-or fashion,” Dr. Keltner said.

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