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else

/ɛls/ adverb A1
  1. Otherwise, if not. · How else (= in what other way) can it be done?· I'm busy Friday; when else (= what other time) works for you?
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“Doesn’t anyone else know you’re a humbug?” asked Dorothy.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 106 · B2
It was worth while, truly,” added the young man with a melancholy smile, “to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 3 · C1
Morrel, and this day and a half was lost from pure whim, for the pleasure of going ashore, and nothing else.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 5 · C1
I am too well aware that though a subordinate, like myself, is bound to acquaint the shipowner with everything that occurs, there are many things he ought most carefully to conceal from all else.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 37 · C1

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