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Some private high schools could have alternative schedules.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
But an alternative scenario isn’t so good either.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
“The alternative to recollapse is eternal expansion, which, like immortality, only sounds good until you really think about it.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
He said people in Wales will ask where the progress is on funding or rail, and what the alternative is if "those requests have been rejected".
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Once he and Mother had discarded filling stations as a possibility, the only alternative was the woods.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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The Catcher in the Rye
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