somehow or other
idiom
—used when the specific details about how something is or was done are not important or have been forgotten
Somehow or other, we managed to get all of the boxes into the car.
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That somehow or other, all of a sudden, their request for a merger or for some other transaction was now slowed for a year or two years or three years, causing irreparable harm, but with no recourse that the company would have.
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Max Tani, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The blue fuselage is minus its propeller, which somehow or other was misplaced.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2025
And somehow or other, nobody mentioned Mike Trout, until the 15th voter weighed in.
—Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
Just who is behind the death of Burke Dennings, an obnoxious British film director who has somehow or other plunged from the window of a Georgetown rowhouse?
—Louis Bayard, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
But somehow or other, the general public didn’t get that feeling that the vulnerable are really, really heavily weighted toward the elderly.
—Steve Mollman, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2023
Sooner or later, somehow or other, Trump or no Trump, the United States will try to stop China’s rise.
—Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2017
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Max Tani, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The blue fuselage is minus its propeller, which somehow or other was misplaced.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2025
And somehow or other, nobody mentioned Mike Trout, until the 15th voter weighed in.
—Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
Just who is behind the death of Burke Dennings, an obnoxious British film director who has somehow or other plunged from the window of a Georgetown rowhouse?
—Louis Bayard, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
But somehow or other, the general public didn’t get that feeling that the vulnerable are really, really heavily weighted toward the elderly.
—Steve Mollman, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2023
Sooner or later, somehow or other, Trump or no Trump, the United States will try to stop China’s rise.
—Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2017
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“Somehow or other.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/somehow%20or%20other. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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