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else

[els] / ɛls /
ADJECTIVE
different
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Some online retailers may hesitate to tell customers when an item is in low supply, fearing it might encourage them to shop elsewhere or discourage them from buying anything else on the site.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Since its creation more than a century ago, the Los Angeles Bureau of Street Lighting has been in the lamppost business and little else.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

And then there’s the constant anticipation that something else will go wrong.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

"I can have up to three a day but some days I don't have any - it depends how I feel and what else is happening," he told a newspaper interviewer in 1989.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

There’s no one else out there except a few kids playing football.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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