alternatives

Example Sentences

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But despite investor enthusiasm for alternatives, the AI chip market is very much Nvidia’s game.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

As the peatlands restoration manager with Ulster Wildlife, Devenney said the time has come to look for alternatives to imported coir logs.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

About 20% of the world’s supply of oil and roughly the same portion of its LNG have been cut off at the Strait of Hormuz, leading import-dependent countries to seek alternatives.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Customer-service operations still rely heavily on underpaid and poorly trained humans, leading to general dissatisfaction across all service metrics, including wait times and repeat calls, with consumers increasingly resorting to equally unsatisfactory self-service alternatives.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

This means that scientists, although they may not be aware of it, are never obliged to adopt any particular theory: there are always alternatives that would work as well, indeed, for all we know, better.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton