alternative
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The findings reinforce a broader lesson emerging from research on alternative sweeteners.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Samuel Guiberteau, a Danone executive on a business trip to Lombok since Friday, said by phone "nothing is certain for the moment", as he searched for alternative flights back to the capital.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
I have heard from haggard, decrepit millennials that it used to be different, that it used to be grungy and alternative.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
U.S. companies have invested heavily in countries such as Kazakhstan and Armenia, giving them an alternative to Russian patronage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
For Gilbert, the experimental method is an alternative, not a supplement, to Aristotle.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
As Patti summarized it, "there is no free lunch" when searching for sugar alternatives, particularly when several metabolic pathways can ultimately lead toward liver dysfunction.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Fuel cells from Bloom and others are still pricier than conventional alternatives, at least at current natural-gas prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"We need to seriously embrace other alternatives as well, like solar and wind. And for that we will need to revise our energy policy that is at the moment very pro-hydropower," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
More attractive returns on safer government bonds also mean greater competition for riskier alternatives, driving down values of stocks and other assets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
The alternatives, he says, will be the obtaining of professional status, or, by 1971, reduction to the role of spectacle-sellers.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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