alternative
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The alternative, though, is to ensure its own destruction.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
When shipments through the Strait of Hormuz were disrupted, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates quickly rerouted oil through alternative export routes, helping to limit the initial hit to global supply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
But the researchers report that they found “little evidence” of support for these alternative explanations.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
In Catie and Phil's case, the alternative flight offered would not have arrived until Saturday morning - four days into their week-long holiday.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
That would be the icebreaker I needed to talk to Tina and make her aware that I was a cool guy into alternative music who went on weekend concert trips with college students.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
The company is soon set to face a flood of generic alternatives, after the patent for semaglutide, the key component of Ozempic, expired in China earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Those concerns have intensified efforts worldwide to find alternatives.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
He said the two systems should not be treated as alternatives.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 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 farm has decided to let us do our booth at the festival, and to combine it with some of their resources on alternatives to traps, poisons, and hunting to manage predators and livestock encounters.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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