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or else1Used to introduce the second of two alternatives: he always had a cold or else was getting over an earache...- So this makes it very difficult to combat, either through eradication or interdiction or else finding alternative livelihoods for Afghan farmers.
- For on our paraphrase, if the second surface is flatter than the first, then either the second surface is flat while the first is not, or else the second is more nearly flat than the first, neither surface being flat.
- Either the flush would come giving Harold the win, doubling his stack, and solidly ensconcing him in second place, or else he would be out of the tournament.
1.1In circumstances different from those mentioned: they can’t want it, or else they’d request it...- He had been lucky that the branch missed his eyes, or else a very different scenario would be happening right now, Trip thought as Lee continued to fuss over him.
- A small argument spread thin: men and women cannot be that different, or else women would not be saved.
- It was a good thing she never mentioned about it, or else I would have been really hurt.
1.2Used as a warning or threat: you go along with this or else you’re going to jail she’d better shape up, or else...- He demands that the UN back their decisions on Iraq with the threat of force, or else the US will overrule the UN charter and attack anyway.
- He and I had the same class and to make my escape fast, I needed to bring him along or else I would seem even more suspicious.
- A man's got to have a beer once in a while or else he'd go nuts without warning.
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