else 1 of 2

as in differently
in a different way if you could do it over again, how else would you have done it?

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adjective

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Recent Examples of else
Adverb
His size is his strength but don’t let that be a distraction from everything else. Adam Crafton, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2025 Who else starts an action movie with the action at an 11? Jack Smart, People.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
Cue the happy tears, sweat, and whatever else life throws at you—these mascaras won't budge. Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 29 Dec. 2024 Parks, a Howard University commit, has lined up as receiver, running back, H-back, quarterback, punter and whatever else coach Karl Calhoun asks him to do. Chris Hays, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for else
Recent Examples of Synonyms for else
Adverb
  • The patrol groups are structured differently in the show: Joel is with Dina, Ellie is with Jesse (Young Mazino) and Tommy (Gabriel Luna) is back in Jackson.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025
  • David Allison, the dean of the public-health school at Indiana University-Bloomington and an obesity researcher who, along with Peter Attia, has advised Rahal, frames it differently.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But focusing on meeting your essential needs first will lay the foundation for eventually finding the physical ability to do more. 2.
    Kathleen Ferraro, SELF, 15 Apr. 2025
  • For me, embracing my curls has become a physical manifestation of a broader internal shift—a move toward more self-acceptance in all aspects and of a new phase of life.
    Liz Krieger, Allure, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • At each turn, Lugo avoided further trouble to retire the side in order.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The agency did not respond to further request for comment as to why McLaughlin implied that both parents had supported VML's deportation to Honduras when her father ostensibly remains in the United States.
    Alana Wise, NPR, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • If the two galaxies are aligned just right, the light from the farther galaxy forms a ring around the nearer one.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2025
  • How fast these farther galaxies are receding from us (which is easily read off from their color) divided by their distances gives H0.
    Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • The head of Marysville’s police force was on leave as of late last week and the city of Marysville has not provided additional information related to the nature of his time away from duty.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Her story also reveals how oppressive systems interact with medical bias to create additional traumas.
    Essence, Essence, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Chief Randal Taylor, in an another car behind Adams, aided the pursuit, the police said.
    Justin L. Mack, Indianapolis Star, 7 May 2020
  • This desire to preserve tradition, however, is likely to be met with a growing desire to preserve an another value: openness.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2020
Adjective
  • The president and his administration accuse Harvard, among other universities, of allowing antisemitism to flourish on campus, endangering Jewish students.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The trip to Brentford is little more than a lower mid-table meeting, but United’s other three engagements could have more riding on them.
    Mark Critchley, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2025

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