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Example Sentences

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Epilepsy is a condition that affects your brain and causes seizures, otherwise known as fits.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

“The current debt situation is not sustainable. Somebody has to fix it; otherwise, the problem will keep compounding.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

“Then the question is whether the new tourism that’s coming in for the games is greater or less than the tourism that’s not gonna come that otherwise would’ve come.”

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

For years, airlines have pointed to sustainable aviation fuel, otherwise known as SAF, as the future of lower-carbon flying.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

I’d finally learned where all our appliances were going: straight into Klawde’s otherwise unused litter box.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth