otherwise

Example Sentences

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The research team wanted to determine whether signals from these cells could disrupt otherwise healthy lungs.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

On the other hand, insofar as inflation expectations can reset higher in response to commodity price shocks, the Fed might need to engage in tightening that they would otherwise look to avoid.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

"I'm up at 06:00 - and what would I do otherwise? Stay in bed all day and do nothing? My mind would go blank."

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

“The landscape shifted so dramatically that we had to reset, otherwise we were going to be climbing this mountain for more than a decade,” Jacobson said at the town hall.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

The séance format that they developed allowed three working-class, barely educated women to advise higher-class, well-educated men, who never would have listened otherwise.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock