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or else

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. alternatively, instead, or elseadverb

    in place of, or as an alternative to

    "Felix became a herpetologist instead"; "alternatively we could buy a used car"

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  1. or else

    "Or else" is a phrase often used in conditional statements to express a consequence or indicate a threat of something negative happening if a certain action is not undertaken. It typically implies a warning or potential negative outcome.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of or else in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of or else in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of or else in a Sentence

  1. Robert McNally:

    The Biden administration is suddenly interested in more drilling, not less, people are more worried about high oil prices than anything else.

  2. Erik Pevernagie:

    When life only consists of infantile first world problems and day-by-day futilities, our mind is eager for other values, which should fill the unbearable emptiness. If we are suffocating under the pressure of the banality of evil and losing out to the slowly infiltrating cancerous cells of indifference, resilience and redirection is required. ("The world was somewhere else" )

  3. Theresa Flores:

    If you can talk to the housekeepers, do so, they have a valuable wealth of information of things they see that nobody else sees. Talk to them about red flags.

  4. White House:

    It is one thing for a president to encourage complete cooperation and transparency in a criminal investigation conducted largely within the Executive Branch. It is something else entirely to allow his advisers to appear before Congress...

  5. Postmaster General:

    While I certainly have a good relationship with the President of the United States, the notion that I would ever make decisions concerning the Postal Service at the direction of The President or anyone else in the administration is wholly off-base.


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