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Example Sentences

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The coldness of it was bracing, but otherwise it tasted bright and sweet with a bitter kick to it.

From Literature

He pats down his breast pockets, presumably looking for something to read or otherwise occupy his time, but, finding nothing, he instead folds his hands in his lap and looks studiously down at his thumbs.

From Literature

And he’s racked up plenty of points in the process that he redeems for vacations, including a recent winter holiday trip to the Caribbean that would have otherwise cost him thousands of dollars.

From MarketWatch

"It's a way of imparting in things a functionality or response to other things to which it would otherwise not respond," Wilson explained.

From Science Daily

New devices with “Apple Intelligence” will locally handle the tasks, email summaries, writing assistance, photo editing, translation and search, that would otherwise generate cloud inference calls.

From The Wall Street Journal