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The EFL says that it makes contingency plans for all of its matches at Wembley, so alternative arrangements had already been sketched out before Spygate emerged.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
“The alternative to recollapse is eternal expansion, which, like immortality, only sounds good until you really think about it.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Liberty said so in a March 6 letter to the California Public Utilities Commission, requesting permission to take “immediate action” to find alternative providers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
With regard to Walmart, he notes that investors still might not fully appreciate “the structural margin expansion story from e-commerce and alternative revenue streams” that will continue in the longer term.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
Christina wanted Ferdinand’s horoscope to be cast, but she was not sure when he had been born and offered two alternative dates more than a year apart: 19 July 1548 and 30 July 1549.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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