and otherwise
idiom
—used to refer to something that is additional to something already mentioned
The company has been having problems, financial and otherwise, for several years.
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Karl Marx had identified them as unreliable characters, politically and otherwise.
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Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Orgasms, shared and otherwise, represent wins as coveted as anything on the ice, and these are two men who love to win.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Nov. 2025
The plant’s free-flowing, natural form is quite lovely; however, these versatile shrubs can also be sheared into formal hedges or topiary, limbed up into a standard form, and otherwise trained.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2025
Elphaba, Glinda and Fiyero are done with their school days and under the thumb of the oppressive regime of the Wizard, whom Elphaba defied (with gravity and otherwise) at the end of Part One.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
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Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Orgasms, shared and otherwise, represent wins as coveted as anything on the ice, and these are two men who love to win.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Nov. 2025
The plant’s free-flowing, natural form is quite lovely; however, these versatile shrubs can also be sheared into formal hedges or topiary, limbed up into a standard form, and otherwise trained.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2025
Elphaba, Glinda and Fiyero are done with their school days and under the thumb of the oppressive regime of the Wizard, whom Elphaba defied (with gravity and otherwise) at the end of Part One.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
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“And otherwise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/and%20otherwise. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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