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"That is why we are closing every asylum hotel and moving asylum seekers into alternative accommodation, including former military sites," a spokesperson said.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
"We believe and hope that we'll get through this winter somehow thanks to alternative sources of electricity," Dmytro Sholudko, the winery's director, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
A savings account can be a solid alternative to insurance, Quammen said, but she added that you never know when an emergency might happen.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The alternative, buying media rights on a school-by-school basis, would explode operating costs for ESPN.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
We waited for Clarence or Bullet to tell us what came next, if we were taking them back with us or leaving them here or...I didn’t really want to think about any other alternative.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
“Now there’s alternatives that potentially weren’t around back when my parents and my grandparents were around. People are starting to understand that buying a house isn’t the only way to build wealth.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
But the head of the city's employment centre, Olga Meshcheryakova, told AFP there were good alternatives.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
"The Government should expressly prohibit businesses from requiring digital IDs for age checks without offering reasonable alternatives," she added.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
U.S. export controls and Chinese government mandates urging local tech companies to use domestic alternatives have boosted revenue for companies like Enflame, but its earnings have been dragged into the red by high research-and-development costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The terms favored in this course are mostly those in common use in the U.S., but when more than one system of terms is widely used, the alternatives are mentioned.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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