Meanings
- not comparableSynonym of for some reason.
1 more example
In 1951, when many people, both patients and doctors, thought that the newly discovered cortisone of Philip Hench was the therapeutic answer to this disease but were for one reason or another unable to obtain it, a paper from Sweden stated that similar results could be obtained by injections of deoxycortone (Doca) and ascorbic acid.
1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763Synonyms: for some reason
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbSynonym of for some reason.
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