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EITHER
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
After a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like 'likewise' or 'also'
Example:
if you don't order dessert I won't either
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Context examples:
The researchers report that their protein-based models were all either better predictors than models based on traditional risk factors or would constitute more convenient and less expensive alternatives to traditional testing.
(Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk, University of Cambridge)
In general, because of its larger size and higher gravity, about twenty asteroids strike Earth for every one that strikes the Moon, though large impacts on either body are rare.
(Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History, NASA)
There is not even a toilet glass on my table, and I had to get the little shaving glass from my bag before I could either shave or brush my hair.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Furthermore, combining both AI-found features and the human-established criteria predicted the recurrence more accurately than using either method alone (AUC=0.842).
(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This is because most fish caught in developing countries is either sent abroad directly or processed and sold to richer nations.
(Fairer fish trade could fix nutrient deficiencies in coastal countries, SciDev.Net)
Responses that were present when the children were younger had either disappeared or grown smaller by the time the children were older.
(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)
Those on OIT who passed the challenge were then randomized to receive either placebo OIT or were switched to a 300-mg daily dose of peanut protein.
(Few people with peanut allergy tolerate peanut after stopping oral immunotherapy, National Institutes of Health)
The researchers showed that combining the two drugs – panobinostat and marizomib – was more effective than either drug by itself in killing DMG patient cells grown in the laboratory and in animal models.
(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)
The malignant cells show minimal differentiation and are called blasts, either myeloid blasts (myeloblasts) or lymphoid blasts (lymphoblasts).
(Acute leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)
Up he got, groped his way to the piano, laid a kind hand on either of the broad shoulders, and said, as gently as a woman, "I know, my boy, I know."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
