adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pretend otherwise
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I can’t marry her and to pretend otherwise would be wrong.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
decide
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However, the morning Mass had been well attended and the members of the parish had decided otherwise .
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Enough of them eventually drop out, in fact, to disguise the otherwise decided statistical superiority of female performance in school.
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Given the statutory provisions, it is difficult to see how the court could have decided otherwise .
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Generations of scholars have decided otherwise .
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Lawrence subsequently decided otherwise , as he was entitled to do.
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If the federal court decides otherwise , then we have a different standard.
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It thereby becomes inviolate until an equally vast majority decides otherwise .
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We had to cross the mountains, camp near a reservoir, then head home - but fate had decided otherwise .
do
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It was indelicate to do otherwise .
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It would be morally wrong to do otherwise .
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No P D James character would dare do otherwise .
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To do otherwise would be needlessly cruel.
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To do otherwise is simply scientifically incautious.
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The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can't do otherwise .
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Why otherwise does it direct the judges to take an oath to support it?
know
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We knew otherwise - and told you so on October 26, 1990.
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The public may think the law applies only to the most dangerous offenders, but inmates know otherwise .
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This is otherwise known as a fiduciary relationship.
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Area 17, for example, is otherwise known as the primary visual area.
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Osteoporosis Otherwise known as brittle bone disease, osteoporosis is a major cause of disability and premature death.
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The best explanation for this is the so-called rebound effect, otherwise known as acute tolerance.
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During that pilgrimage, they lived in tents and booths, otherwise known as sukkot.
pretend
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Eleanor was wrong to try and pretend otherwise .
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It makes people feel better to pretend otherwise .
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The introduction of council tax is going to hurt an awful lot of people and there is no point in pretending otherwise .
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Nevertheless they were two real victories, and it is childish of Bush's opponents to pretend otherwise .
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Though she'd never been much of a nurse and it was hypocritical to pretend otherwise .
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Though he found it convenient to pretend otherwise , the man was no hick care-taker.
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But if you are well known, it seems foolish to pretend otherwise .
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I knew at once that something was different, why pretend otherwise ?
prove
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How does the incumbent house prove otherwise ?
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It is a matter for further investigation, but if it looks wrong, it is wrong until proved otherwise .
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A Limba teacher is too often believed incompetent by his Susu or Koranko students until he proves otherwise .
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The burden was on the state to prove otherwise .
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Woodhead spent three years attempting to prove otherwise .
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It was a problem waiting to happen, the most identifiable flaw on a team that wanted to prove otherwise .
state
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Unless stated otherwise , you have to assume all text, graphics, scripts, programs and applets are copyright.
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All pictures by the author unless stated otherwise .
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Unless stated otherwise , all statutory references are to the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.
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The point is, mathematical notation gives us complete liberty, unless it explicitly states otherwise .
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All items are available from good toy shops, unless stated otherwise .
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Edges are neatened and pressed open unless stated otherwise .
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In the rest of this factsheet, the community charge referred to is the personal community charge unless stated otherwise .
suggest
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It is ridiculous to suggest otherwise .
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One might think that the business interests would have more sway, but the results suggest otherwise .
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The example of Leavis and Scrutiny may suggest otherwise .
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But the 57 Mature Harappan graves from the R37 cemetery at Harappa suggest otherwise .
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Experience with other fund management takeovers would however tend to suggest otherwise .
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The Pep Squad only pretends to be-and woe to any member who might dare to suggest otherwise .
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The stopwatch may suggest otherwise but so what.
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This might have stemmed from inadequate foundations, but what evidence there is suggests otherwise .
think
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Many might seek to use the asylum route and, indeed, it would be naive to think otherwise .
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But he knew that people thought otherwise , and that their false impression was his own fault.
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People think otherwise , surely, from politicians: more simply, about horror, fear, survival?
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To think otherwise , it seems, is to reveal oneself as an ignoramus who does not know enough characters.
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If Anya thinks otherwise , she has no future at Mephistco.
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But I wanted to have it on the record, in case any of you think otherwise .
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Donald thinks otherwise - and the upshot may be that he will sue.
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No one at Exeter, it is hard to think otherwise , ever wanted for anything.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be otherwise engaged
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Duffy, who was otherwise engaged , has been replaced by another actor.
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The people in the town who may need a spot of positive thinking more than anybody else will be otherwise engaged .
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The two leaders went to military headquarters for confirmation and were told that the staff were otherwise engaged .
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This satisfies him and allows the other adventurers to run and escape automatically while the Champion is otherwise engaged .
know different/otherwise
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Christopher would tell me all sorts of things I would never know otherwise.
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If you know different contact: who would like to get this year's books completed.
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Just another wench, he told himself angrily, but deep down he knew different.
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Now, presumably, they know different.
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The answer is probably no - but do you know otherwise?
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The public may think the law applies only to the most dangerous offenders, but inmates know otherwise.
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We knew otherwise - and told you so on October 26, 1990.
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We teach them, you know different things.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An inspection of the building revealed faults that might otherwise have been overlooked.
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I'm glad you told me about the show being cancelled. Otherwise I'd have travelled all the way to Glasgow for nothing.
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It can't have been anything important, otherwise she'd have called back.
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She must have missed the train, otherwise she'd be here by now.
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Stir the sauce until it cools, otherwise it will be lumpy.
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The police stressed that Straskow would be considered innocent until proved otherwise .
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The situation was very serious indeed, even if the government tried to pretend otherwise .
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You should type it; otherwise , they won't be able to read it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But try to persuade him otherwise .
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It is equally vital that both should be mentioned, otherwise a client, particularly a buyer, could be seriously misled.
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One third of the doctors believed otherwise .
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Section references below are to the Companies Act 1985 unless otherwise indicated.
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She did not rant or rave or otherwise make a spectacle of herself.
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Similarly, an increase in the supply of money will have real output effects whether it is anticipated or otherwise .
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