or otherwise
idiom
—used to refer to something that is different from something already mentioned
Intentionally or otherwise, they never told her about the party.
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Humans could scheme and possibly find a means of turning off AI or otherwise defeating AI.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
That fortune extended to Rice himself, who could have been maimed or paralyzed or otherwise unable to walk away.
—Kansas City Star, 18 July 2025
Most of the pictures here have been painted, trimmed, collaged, or otherwise ruthlessly edited.
—Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 18 July 2025
Meanwhile, the complexity of family connections, as evidenced by what diverse people across early American wrote, said, stitched or otherwise represented about their families, is simultaneously both very different and very familiar.
—Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
That fortune extended to Rice himself, who could have been maimed or paralyzed or otherwise unable to walk away.
—Kansas City Star, 18 July 2025
Most of the pictures here have been painted, trimmed, collaged, or otherwise ruthlessly edited.
—Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 18 July 2025
Meanwhile, the complexity of family connections, as evidenced by what diverse people across early American wrote, said, stitched or otherwise represented about their families, is simultaneously both very different and very familiar.
—Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2025
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“Or otherwise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/or%20otherwise. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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