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One besides the one mentioned. This phrase is used to emphasize indefinite words beginning with some , such as someone, somehow, sometime, somewhere . For example, Someone or other will be taking tickets at the door , or I can't remember where I put the lawn rake, but it's somewhere or other in the garage , or Somehow or other be found one that matched . [c. 1600]Example Sentences
A second measure removed a ban on employing those youths on construction sites, though it prohibited allowing them to work on roofs or other structures more than six feet off the ground.
Under Hong Kong's Safeguarding National Security Bill, it is illegal to "make available, directly or indirectly, any funds or other financial assets or economic resources to, or for the benefit of, a relevant absconder".
Police said they had arrested two men aged 35 and 68 on suspicion of handling "funds or other financial assets" belonging to Kwok, Reuters said.
Informed consent is required before any medical procedure that comes with significant risks, like a surgery or other invasive operation, for example.
Sheriff’s officials allege that Britton would wait for assemblies or other activities to sneak into unlocked classrooms where teachers left personal items.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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