alternative
Example Sentences
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For decades Beijing has marketed its weapons systems as alternatives to Western equipment.
It’s better than the alternative, he says, as the screen flashed to an image of the former Prince Andrew.
From Los Angeles Times
As the CIA began to create an alternative plan, Chevron—the last major U.S. oil company with a sustained presence in Venezuela, found a more receptive audience.
"While several alternatives were considered, it was ultimately decided that no substitutions will be made in April," Formula 1's governing body the FIA said in a statement before Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix.
From BBC
The alternative was bills rocketing and the "potential for blackouts, tipping people in poverty into not being able to pay their bills, even dying, and a winter of discontent".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
