other (than) 1 of 2

as in else
in a different way we cannot make it to the party other than by canceling the previous engagement

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other than

2 of 2

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as in except
not including other than a new jacket, I bought no special clothes for the wedding

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Bijan did not seem to contest this fact very much, other than to argue that the fact that Bijan could not collect against Akubiro's one potential asset, being the Chino home, was by itself evidence that the divorce was a sham. Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024 But no matter how much genre fluidity surfaces within her records, Lynne won’t consider it anything other than a country album. Ilana Kaplan, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024 The 2020s are nobody’s favorite decade, so why not retreat into the past (i.e. long before anyone wore face masks outside of a medical context, or thought of Donald Trump as anything other than a buffoonish real-estate mogul) with a nostalgic retrospective of the best 1980s movies? Emma Specter, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2024 Pruning Leeks don’t require pruning other than to remove any dead or diseased leaves. Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for other (than) 

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“Other (than).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/other%20%28than%29. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.

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