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Example Sentences

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Rather than a slight to Lane, Lithgow’s win is a sign of the dramatic depth that characterized this otherwise squirrely season.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

In a time when Korean culture dominates the pop sphere, this exhibition defines the highpoints of earlier Korean aesthetics for U.S. audiences otherwise underexposed to them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

From 1933 onward, more people may have acted out of opportunism, to secure jobs or otherwise benefit from the Nazi hierarchy.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

It’s that rarest of investigative-journalism properties: a consistently profitable enterprise that commands the levels of advertising expenditures that have otherwise plunged across traditional TV and informational media writ large.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

They can do things in the water that they can’t do otherwise.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret