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[ adverb ] in any way necessary

Examples

"I'll pass this course by hook or by crook"

Used in print

(Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)

Examples are in public utilities , making military aircraft and accessories , or where the investment and risk for a proprietorship would be too great for a much needed project impossible to achieve by_any_means other_than the corporate form , e._g. constructing major airports or dams .

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