alternative
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Mr. Musk realizes the value of the arbitration alternative.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
The alternative argument about the AI build-out is buttressed by the fact that capital expenditure isn’t immediately reflected in profit and losses.
From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026
Starting in the early 1990s, charters gradually took hold in L.A., persuading parents they offered an attractive education alternative, and they now enroll about 1 in 5 public school students living within L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
For all the recent noise about day-one markups, Hirsch says he hasn’t heard a better alternative put forward for accounting for them.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
For Gilbert, the experimental method is an alternative, not a supplement, to Aristotle.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing alternative
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The Catcher in the Rye
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