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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The belief is that people will relish having generative AI perform their chores such as filling out online forms, composing and sending emails for you, and otherwise acting as a kind of agentic AI doing your bidding. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024 Advertisement Some members in the audience showed up in costume but none could compete with the wondrously weird mélange of butoh dance, shadow puppetry, ghosts of various varieties, nurses seeming straight out of horror films along with models, tormented and otherwise. Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024 Buckner was left there, all but naked, to explain the errant seconds that would define his long and otherwise distinguished career. Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024 Both iterations of the fund have allowed organizations and jurisdictions along the southern border and in interior U.S. communities receiving migrants to get reimbursed for their efforts to house, feed and otherwise assist those released from federal immigration custody. Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2024 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 21 Nov. 2024.

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