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I overheard a group of Maharashtrians asking the waiter to get the menu card printed in Marathi else they would complain to the MNS.

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  1. adjective Other; different: Ask somebody else.
  2. adjective Additional; more: Would you like anything else?
  3. adverb In a different or additional time, place, or manner: I always do it this way and I don't know how else it could be done. Where else do you want to go besides Miami?
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  • "Veterans like being outside and having something semi-structured to do because when they focus on something else which is meaningful, it stops their intrusive thoughts and their flashbacks." —  Army Rumour Service
  • There's only so much time and room time for me to see anybody else, and if everybody else is being constantly scrolled off because some person is doing nothing but ReTweeting Guy K's 17 most recent tweets (which I've already seen thank you very much), that ticks me off. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0
  • Howell says "unless there is inevitability of you being hurt or someone else, which is called defense of a third person, then you are not allowed to use deadly force." —  WVLT - Home - Headlines
  • A good example that could better exemplify my point, is how one could be looking at the floor (receiving the visual sensory input that says he or she is looking at a floor), and then allow themselves vividly imagine a beach or something else which is not present in the discernable environment. —  Serendip's Exchange -
  • It's the soft-Right more than anyone else which is suffering from that the most. —  Riehl World View
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  1. Middle English elles, from Old English; see al-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English elles, ellis, often elle, from Anglo-Saxon elles, in another manner, otherwise, besides, = OFries. elles, ellis = Old High German alles, elles, Middle High German alles = Old Swedish aljes, Swedish eljest = Danish ellers, otherwise; an adverbial genitive of *ali-, ele- (in comp. ele-land, another land, elelende, of another land, etc.) = Gothic (Moesogothic) alis (genitive aljis) = Latin alius = Greek ᾰλλος, other. Cf. Latin alias, prob. an old genitive, at another time, otherwise: see alias, and cf. alien, allo-, etc.
 

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