as in else
in a different way
the candidate was gracious in his defeat, though he clearly wished the election had gone otherwise
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Recent Examples of otherwise
SpaceX scored its 500th landing of a Falcon 9 first stage booster on an otherwise routine flight earlier this month, sending 28 Starlink communications satellites into orbit.
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Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
More athletes followed, getting very large tattoos that would otherwise have needed to be created across multiple sessions in a parlor, with bouts of healing in between—an arduous process that can take many weeks to complete.
—John Semley, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
That harmed websites, which depend on advertising to pay for their costs, as well as consumers who must pay for access to content that might otherwise be free.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
It’s allowed so many artists who probably wouldn’t have had the opportunity otherwise.
—Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2025
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Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
More athletes followed, getting very large tattoos that would otherwise have needed to be created across multiple sessions in a parlor, with bouts of healing in between—an arduous process that can take many weeks to complete.
—John Semley, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
That harmed websites, which depend on advertising to pay for their costs, as well as consumers who must pay for access to content that might otherwise be free.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
It’s allowed so many artists who probably wouldn’t have had the opportunity otherwise.
—Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for otherwise
Adverb
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Hovering over your fourth house of home and family, while still unapologetically in its determination, the dynamics within your living space take precedence over everything else.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
22 Sep. 2025
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Hurts’ ceiling far exceeds everyone else who is available.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Hunter Leininger does things a bit differently.—
Joe Kozlowski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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In vacuum and one-sixth gravity, lubricants boil off, moving parts behave differently, and remote or autonomous operation is necessary because of the time delay between Earth and Moon, which makes real-time teleoperation impractical.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Otherwise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/otherwise. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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