otherwise

Example Sentences

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But what happens to the people who might otherwise do those jobs?

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

But it’s all we have now in an otherwise deteriorating situation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

That puts it at an advantage in the current artificial-intelligence era, the company said, because it can “provide novel, high-value data that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive or altogether unattainable” for training models.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

“Then the question is whether the new tourism that’s coming in for the games is greater or less than the tourism that’s not gonna come that otherwise would’ve come.”

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

Rivers and inlets from the sea provide an easy route for incoming waves, carrying tsunamis much farther inland than they could otherwise travel.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland