and otherwise

idiom

used to refer to something that is additional to something already mentioned
The company has been having problems, financial and otherwise, for several years.

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While many of us will never get the chance to hear these sounds in person, this glacier and other voices of the Arctic, human and otherwise, are incorporated into the lauded electronic duo’s new collaborative project Takkuuk. Katie Bain, Billboard, 24 July 2025 Reasonable people, Italian and otherwise, demanded answers from city hall, and were told that federal and state laws mandate that road lines be painted yellow. Wendy Murphy, Boston Herald, 7 July 2025 In my own country, from 1995 to 2013 USAID trained 28,000 former combatants with skills and tools to farm land and otherwise earn a living, helping to reintegrate these civilians back into society, lifting the economy in a Southern Philippines still torn by war. Butch Meily, Fortune, 7 July 2025 Casey Johnston’s new book, A Physical Education, tells a before-and-after story, too—one not of shrinkage but of growth, physical and otherwise. Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 3 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for and otherwise

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“And otherwise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/and%20otherwise. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.

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