What's the difference between ever and whichever?

Ever


Definition:

  • (adv.) At any time; at any period or point of time.
  • (adv.) At all times; through all time; always; forever.
  • (adv.) Without cessation; continually.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (2) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
  • (3) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
  • (4) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
  • (5) You can't spend more than you take in, and you can't keep doing it for ever and ever and ever.
  • (6) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
  • (7) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (8) Yet those who have remained committed have become ever more angry.
  • (9) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
  • (10) I’ve been at United ever since I was a little boy and I had a great time there.
  • (11) It was one of a series of deaths of black men – deaths in custody, deaths where no one ever got to the bottom of what had happened.
  • (12) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
  • (13) It came in a mix of joy and sorrow and brilliance under pressure, with one of the most remarkable things you will ever see on a basketball court in the biggest moment.
  • (14) On the first anniversary of Peach's death I took part in my first ever demonstration where we chanted the names of the six SPG officers who were said to have been hitting people with batons on the street where Peach died.
  • (15) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
  • (16) Despite this, the public is more suspicious than ever of the danger of pills.
  • (17) Not that I would ever accept it, but because in doing so they've exposed themselves as the worst kind of tabloid.
  • (18) It inherited an economy that was growing quite strongly but activity came to an abrupt halt last autumn and has flatlined ever since.
  • (19) But it should also be noted that this Spurs team might be the best Spurs team ever, and they've had lots of good teams (including four previous championship teams).
  • (20) "Law is all I've ever wanted to do, but it's so competitive.

Whichever


Definition:

  • (pron. & a.) Alt. of Whichsoever

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The threshold for stimulation-produced analgesia or aversion, whichever was lowest, was determined before and after drug administration.
  • (2) There were neither differences in intubation conditions nor in the occurrence of postoperative diplopia whichever muscle relaxant was used.
  • (3) Through medical records, all patients were followed up for the development of subsequent internal cancer until they died, moved from Rochester, Minn, or January 1, 1986, whichever came first.
  • (4) In multiple regression analyses, the prognostic value of chromosomes was independent of (and second in importance to) the FAB type of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) whichever chromosome classification was used.
  • (5) Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg was bound by the decision of voters to get into coalition with whichever party wins the most seats, he said.
  • (6) The US would be in a situation where it would presumably then say we’d reimpose sanctions which would only hurt, for the most part, US businesses, which would then turn on whichever administration,” said George Perkovich, vice-president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  • (7) Reaffirming his long-standing opposition to Trident in a BBC Scotland interview, Corbyn said: “In the House of Commons I was chair of the CND [Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament] group and one of the vice-chairs is from the SNP, and yes, we will be voting with them on this – or they will be voting with us, whichever way you want to put it.” Have you joined Labour since Corbyn became leader?
  • (8) The doomsday scenario privately discussed at both party conferences so far was the grudging election of a largest party of whichever flavour, but without the majority or mandate to fight its way out of a paper bag.
  • (9) Biodistribution was followed for up to 72 hr after injection but the pattern showed no change after 8 hr, whichever the route of administration.
  • (10) It is concluded that whichever view is taken of the mechanisms of severe adverse reactions, the new nonionic agents are likely to be safer than the ionic agents now in use.
  • (11) The annual increase in the state pension will be protected by what Osborne described as a "triple lock" - the rise will be in line with earnings, prices or a 2.5% increase, whichever is the greater.
  • (12) Whichever route is taken, staggering amounts of money need to be spent.
  • (13) Whichever label was used, only little radio-activity was found in EMT6 tumour and brain.
  • (14) Osborne and Cameron have promised to "triple lock" the state pension so that it will increase by whichever is higher – inflation, wages or 2.5%.
  • (15) Patients were followed for three months or until six attacks were monitored, whichever came first.
  • (16) The likelihood of serious industrial unrest cannot be ruled out.” The two money-saving proposals on offer involve either a series of changes including increasing the pension age from 60 to 65 or state pension age (whichever is higher), or breaking the final-salary link for the pension scheme, according to Prospect.
  • (17) We prevented nine experienced fast pitch softball players from viewing the ball during the first, middle, or last third of its trajectory and found that seeing the first third of the ball's trajectory is not as critical as had been thought: batters are very good at making do with whichever two-thirds of the ball's trajectory is visible.
  • (18) Whichever way the election goes, education and health care are unlikely to be on the agenda The fierce political struggle of recent months is about a bid to capture and control oil wealth.
  • (19) The guarantee, which means the state pension will rise in line with whichever is higher out of prices inflation, earnings or 2.5%, was introduced in 2010.
  • (20) Each physician completed a standardized report form for 100 consecutive x-rays or for all x-rays obtained for three months, whichever came first.

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