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somehow or the other

somehow or the other 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 the other

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

Words near somehow or the other in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: somehow or the other (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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