Principal Part of Laurent series' expansion of $f(z)=\frac{\sin(z^3)}{(1-\cos z)^3}$

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I need to calculate principal part of the Laurent series expansion of $f$ at $z_0=0$ with $$ f(z)=\frac{\sin(z^3)}{(1-\cos z)^3} $$

I can see that $f$ has a pole of order 3 at $z_0=0$ , and also that $f$ is an odd function, therefore the expansion will be $$ a_{-3}z^{-3}+a_{-1}z^{-1} $$ but after this I am stuck. I tried using some trigonomteric identities, but they seem to make things more complicated.

I calculated $a_{-1}$ using the residue formula and it seems to be 2 , but I think there has to be a simpler way to deal with this.

Any help or advice towards the soluution would be welcome.

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Hoping that the Taylor series could help you to some extent, let us start with $$\sin(y)=y-\frac{y^3}{6}+O\left(y^4\right)$$ So $$\sin(z^3)=z^3-\frac{z^9}{6}+O\left(z^{10}\right)$$ Now $$\cos(z)=1-\frac{z^2}{2}+\frac{z^4}{24}+O\left(z^5\right)$$ $$1-\cos(z)=\frac{z^2}{2}-\frac{z^4}{24}+O\left(z^5\right)$$ So $$\frac{\sin(z^3)}{(1-\cos z)^3}=\frac{8}{z^3}+\frac{2}{z}+\frac{4 z}{15}+O\left(z^3\right)$$