alternative
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Some private high schools could have alternative schedules.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
The alternative isn’t great, either: You stay in a miserable job and burn out before you’re 30.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Niayesh Afshordi, a cosmologist, and Phil Halper, who hosts a YouTube channel on science, introduce dozens of alternative theories, some with tongue-twisting names.
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
Whitney Young was named for a civil rights activist and had been opened in 1975 as a positive-minded alternative to busing.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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The Catcher in the Rye
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