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or else
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Princeton's WordNet
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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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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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of or else in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of or else in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of or else in a Sentence
The Biden administration is suddenly interested in more drilling, not less, people are more worried about high oil prices than anything else.
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" )
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.
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...
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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- وإلا, بطريقة أخرىArabic
- andernfalls, sonst, andersGerman
- o verásSpanish
- vastasel juhul, või muiduEstonian
- وگرنهPersian
- sinonFrench
- annarsIcelandic
- さもないと, 或いは, もしくは, そうでなければJapanese
- თორემ, თუარადაGeorgian
- of andersDutch
- hvis ikke, ellersNorwegian
- caso contrário, senãoPortuguese
- а то, в противном случае, а не то, иначеRussian
- annars så..., annarsSwedish
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