Not for
Other than and not for are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "Other than" with "Not for", this phrases are similar.
Other than
Other than adverb - In a different way.
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Not for and other than are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Not for" with "Other than", this phrases are similar.
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Granted, the real Anastasia never did anything particularly bad other than being related to the wrong person (she was all of seventeen when the Bolsheviks murdered her, after all), but she would be just another member of the royal family if not for the survival rumors.
Source: Useful Notes / Red October -
Chapter 37 shows that, with a little bit of hair-dye, they're practically indistinguishable, if not for (other than their personalities) the fact that Momoka prefers high-kicks to panty scissors. Observe.
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Played completely straight and not for comedy in the Stephen King story Survivor Type, where a sociopathic surgeon is stranded on a Far Side island with no supplies other than some water and a large amount of heroin he had been smuggling.
Source: "Far Side" Island
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