Besides
Besides is a preposition or a linking adverb. It means ‘in addition to’ or ‘also’: …

besides | American Dictionary

besides
preposition, adverb[ not gradable ]
us/bɪˈsɑɪdz/
in addition to; also:
Do you play any other sports besides golf?
He won’t mind if you’re late – besides, it’s not your fault.

Examples of besides

besides
Besides nutrients and light, rice and weeds also competed for water.
Besides the standard section, in every wave some questions are added to poll the opinions surrounding hot topics.
Besides knowledge, he must have the pedagogical skills for teaching the language.
Besides, poverty may diminish his importance in the eyes of his parishioners, especially if he cannot relieve them in their distress.
Decreasing returns to scale imply the existence of some other fixed factor of production, besides land, that must be allocated between crops.
Besides, there is a considerable amount of literature on this subject, and there still exist conflicts of viewpoint which some readers will wish to consider.
There were other more significant concerns, however, besides risks to benefit status.
Besides, given that the ordinance had been enacted as a temporary security measure, it should only be invoked with great caution.
Besides, unlike the mass center position, the trolley position is easily measured.
Besides music appreciation and singing, girls also scored higher responding means than boys for playing the recorder and other instruments.
Besides disorderly conduct, the police increasingly arrested young people for theft.
Besides a great mass of formalists - barely interested in actual languages - the ' armchair ' typologists produce slight generalizations based on superficially gathered information.
Besides these, aneurysms are seen in the transition from muscular to elastic segments in such arteries as the celiac and mesenteric.
Besides, we have here excluded annuitizations of private savings, so that public redistribution is the only form of insurance against the mortality risk.
Besides, though widespread, geography constrained the trade points to be located less evenly than consumption.
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