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somehow or another

somehow or another is the alternative form of somehow or other.

Meaning of somehow or other

Adverb

somehow or other (not comparable)

  1. One way or another; by some (mysterious) means.
    • Somehow or other they managed to get that grand piano upstairs.

Questions about somehow or another

What is somehow or another the alternative form of?
Somehow or another is the alternative form of somehow or other.

Words near somehow or another in the dictionary

  1. somedog
  2. somefin'
  3. somefink
  4. somefur
  5. somehow
  6. somehow or another
  7. somehow or other
  8. somehow or the other
  9. somemore
  10. somen
  11. someone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: somehow or another (page history and authors); somehow or other (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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