In a way or another vs in one way or another

Both phrases are correct, but "in one way or another" is more commonly used and considered more formal. "In a way or another" is also acceptable but less common.

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In a way or another

This phrase is acceptable but less common than the alternative.

This phrase is used to express that something happens or is done in some manner or form, without specifying the exact way.

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In a way or another I have to solve the situation.
Then I thought that sometimes you've got to celebrate... 'cause in a way or another this year passed anyway
In a way or another, they'll have to return him to us.
I'm not sure how it works but in a way or another, I can repair them.
One way or another, they'll find a way to kill him.
Circumcision doesn't affect impotency one way or another.
One way or another fleet capacity must be reduced.
Everybody feels different about themselves one way or another.
But one way or another, he got his hands on the murder weapon, and he found a way to monetize it.
One way or another, that thing finds a way to take...
Most viruses initially affect cerebral perception in one way or another.
In one way or another, we're all searching for something.
One way or another, everyone stops bleeding.
Seems one way or another, she's getting her questions answered.
I'm going to end up back there one way or another.
One way or another, I need to check him out.
One way or another, we eventually find them.
One way or another, we are waiting.
All business is a game one way or another.
One way or another he will be punished.

Alternatives:

in one way or another

in one way or another

This phrase is more commonly used and considered more formal than the alternative.

This phrase is used to express that something happens or is done in some manner or form, without specifying the exact way. It is a more formal version of "in a way or another."

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It therefore becomes obvious in one way or another that there is a difference between principles and concrete implementation.
Most of those men are dead now in one way or another.
It is mostly politicians like us who use statistics in one way or another.
All the Member States of the EU are now involved in projects in one way or another.
We have to prompt them in one way or another.
Everyone at school has turned on her in one way or another.
Europe has not done enough to press China and India to stop supporting in one way or another the Burmese oppressors.
I would also like the European Commission, in one way or another, to take account of Parliament's criteria.
I'm always impressed by Miss Brodie's girls - in one way or another.
Savings systems, which are dependent in one way or another upon the capital markets, constitute a much more unstable project.
The fact is, we're all criminals, Dawson, in one way or another.
Beyond their differences, all their questions in one way or another concerned a fundamental issue: the purpose of this integration whose institutions we wish to reform.
I soon realized that he was still talking... in one way or another, about his previous life.
The decisive element is that, in one way or another, undertakings bear the full costs for pensions.
We try and use our technology to improve our lives in one way or another.
Those procedures must therefore be changed in one way or another, in spite of all the mediation that has taken place in the meantime.
And increasingly, everything that people buy, every consumer product, in one way or another, can be personalized.
I see a lot of kids, and they're all different in one way or another.
According to the Institute for Security Studies, in 1999 the EU spent between EUR 1.5 and 2 billion on items relating in one way or another to armaments.
I believe that all the comments by Parliament's very worthy representatives have indicated this in one way or another.

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in a way or another

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In a way or another vs in one way or another