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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Guantanamo's sordid past includes top secret torture facilities, the inhumane treatment of Haitian asylum seekers fleeing political violence, a concentration camp for people with HIV, and ongoing brutalization of Muslim detainees after 9/11 who were famously waterboarded and otherwise tortured.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
At least 26 times between July 15 and Nov. 20, Lt. Caleb Stewart criminally charged people with violating the unlawful camping law for lying on blankets under overpasses, sleeping in tents on sidewalks and otherwise living on the streets.
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An August 2024 report released by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused NED of promoting coups, rigging elections, promoting false information, and otherwise inciting division globally.
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The state department subsequently halted funds granted to resettlement agencies to help refugees — including Afghans with special immigrant visas — rent and furnish apartments, register their children in school and otherwise settle into their new lives.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 13 Feb. 2025
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
At least 26 times between July 15 and Nov. 20, Lt. Caleb Stewart criminally charged people with violating the unlawful camping law for lying on blankets under overpasses, sleeping in tents on sidewalks and otherwise living on the streets.
—Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 18 Feb. 2025
An August 2024 report released by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused NED of promoting coups, rigging elections, promoting false information, and otherwise inciting division globally.
—Robert Schmad, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Feb. 2025
The state department subsequently halted funds granted to resettlement agencies to help refugees — including Afghans with special immigrant visas — rent and furnish apartments, register their children in school and otherwise settle into their new lives.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 13 Feb. 2025
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“And otherwise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/and%20otherwise. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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