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Princeton's WordNet

  1. differently, otherwise, other thanadverb

    in another and different manner

    "very soon you will know differently"; "she thought otherwise"; "there is no way out other than the fire escape";

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  1. other than

    "Other than" is a phrase used to indicate exclusion or exception, meaning besides, apart from, or except for. It's often used to contrast or differentiate something from other things or people.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'other than' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2446

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'other than' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2274

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of other than in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of other than in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of other than in a Sentence

  1. Frank Gaffney:

    We cannot trust the Iranians to do anything other than to pursue what they have been pursuing for decades, a nuclear weapons program, secretly and in the open.

  2. Kevin Larrabee:

    I knew it wasn’t right, but there wasn’t anything I could do about it other than try to lose more weight, i was as far as I could get with the knowledge I had.

  3. Captain Mark Meyers:

    Because of the ages of the individuals involved, I am unable to provide any details other than we will be coordinating with child protective services to assure the safety of all persons involved.

  4. Marco Rubio:

    It's frustrating, but I am not sure what we can do about it other than take back the House one day, we will pass bills, but in terms of major pieces of legislation, the kind you spend two weeks working on, that's a lot harder right now.

  5. Michael Warner:

    The government didn't listen to scientists, they didn't listen to epidemiologists, they didn't listen to doctors other than their chief medical officer of health. And because they failed to listen to scientists, they thought they could negotiate themselves out of this virus, but the virus is too strong, the variant is a different disease.


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