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McManamon says stock up on nuts as a sweet alternative but be aware that they may have a shorter shelf life.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Everything about the event seemed designed to make alternative finance feel fun.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
In one experiment in which termites had no untreated alternative, the 0.1 percent bistrifluron treatment produced about 99 percent mortality after 60 days.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
The pipeline carries crude from Saudi Arabia’s eastern oil fields to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, providing an alternative export route when flows through the Strait of Hormuz are constrained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
There are twenty amino acids in all, and four letters could not specify twenty alternative states by themselves.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Huawei Technologies is ramping up development of alternatives to Nvidia’s artificial-intelligence computing systems, part of China’s push to reduce reliance on U.S. technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Wooden-pole alternatives are around 12m high but can carry less electricity.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“Now there’s alternatives that potentially weren’t around back when my parents and my grandparents were around. People are starting to understand that buying a house isn’t the only way to build wealth.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Those concerns have intensified efforts worldwide to find alternatives.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
My mother tried to interest me in a variety of suitable alternatives from a list Effie Trinket sent her.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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