and otherwise
idiom
—used to refer to something that is additional to something already mentioned
The company has been having problems, financial and otherwise, for several years.
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As the temperature rises underground, this highly contagious and rapidly mutating microorganism multiplies and unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants – human and otherwise.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2025
Tesla products and dealerships around the world have been spray painted, lit on fire and otherwise defaced by those who oppose Musk’s controversial views.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
Tesla showrooms and factories across the country have been inundated with protests over the last few months and there have been multiple reports of people vandalizing, firebombing and otherwise damaging Tesla vehicles.
—Sonam Sheth, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
The media, social and otherwise, are full of claims that renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels, that electric vehicles are superior to conventional ones, and that efficiency is the lowest of low hanging fruit—and often profitable.
—Michael Lynch, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2025
Tesla products and dealerships around the world have been spray painted, lit on fire and otherwise defaced by those who oppose Musk’s controversial views.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
Tesla showrooms and factories across the country have been inundated with protests over the last few months and there have been multiple reports of people vandalizing, firebombing and otherwise damaging Tesla vehicles.
—Sonam Sheth, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
The media, social and otherwise, are full of claims that renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels, that electric vehicles are superior to conventional ones, and that efficiency is the lowest of low hanging fruit—and often profitable.
—Michael Lynch, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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“And otherwise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/and%20otherwise. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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