otherwise

Example Sentences

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Don’t let a company — or your overwhelming desire to do the right thing — tell you otherwise.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

“I look at it more like a museum where the art hangs. You have to make the museum approachable, otherwise nobody comes to see the art.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

By the time the celery sleeve arrives at the corner store, it is around 40 cents pricier than it would be otherwise.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

From her home, she can see the plant and, emanating from it, “black clouds on an otherwise normal day.”

From Salon • May 10, 2026

The structure wound down into the opposite chair, then onto the floor, emptying at the base of a three-level cat tower, otherwise barricaded from Fig’s access.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas