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otherwise

/ˈʌð.ɚˌwaɪz/ adjective C2
  1. Other than supposed; different. · He said he didn’t do it, but the evidence was otherwise.· Statistics need lots of information, digital and otherwise.
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“I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that is—‘Be what you would seem to be’—or if you’d like it put more simply—‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.’”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 69 · B2
Otherwise the winter passed away in a round of pleasant duties and studies.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 253 · C1
Marilla would have given much just then to have possessed Anne’s power of putting her feelings into words; but nature and habit had willed it otherwise, and she could only put her arms close about her girl and hold her tenderly to her heart, wishing that she need never let her go.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 289 · C1
Otherwise I’d have gone to the park to hear the band play with Frank Stockley.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 294 · C1

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