otherwise

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“When support is extended across the income distribution, it sustains demand that firms can then use to pass on higher costs—forcing monetary policy to tighten more than it otherwise would,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

"We need to set a benchmark, otherwise we're just going to continue to see this decline with hugely unmanageable, unsafe caseloads which are impossible for health visitors to work within," she says.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

According to Touma, these same processes may remove multiple planets from binary systems, especially those that would otherwise be detectable by missions like Kepler or TESS.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

“It’s not getting done otherwise, and our neighborhood would have burned down,” Keenan told me.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

The fulcrum of fortune has a way of seesawing from one condition to its opposite with no warning, like a sudden squall on an otherwise balmy day.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood