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alternative as in: an alternative plan
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Let's think of at least three alternatives before we decide what to do.
alternatives = possibilities
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Can anyone think of a better alternative?alternative = something available as another possibility
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Alternatively, we could pack for a picnic and eat in the park.alternatively = as another possibility
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It felt like such a stupid thing to say, so obvious, but there seemed little alternative. (source)alternative = other possibility
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We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared out of your wits. (source)alternative = other possibility
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It wasn't as if I had any alternatives to propose. (source)alternatives = other possibilities
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The accepted opinion was that Saddam had a mobile spinning program which could not easily be found, and in fact could be either lost and buried in the desert or alternatively driven across the border into Syria or even Jordan. (source)alternatively = as another possibility
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He didn't particularly enjoy getting roughed up, but the alternative was to cower and beg, which he couldn't lower himself to do. (source)alternative = other possibility
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Actually, we had told her from the start that we were willing to give her other options if she was going to refuse to live with us, and we offered her several alternatives. (source)alternatives = other possibilities
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Or alternatively the knifing of a native foreman by a migrant or a fight among rival groups of migrants.† (source)alternatively = as another possibility
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I got bored and looked around for alternative entertainment. (source)alternative = different
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You gave me two alternatives that you could live with, and I chose the one that I could live with. That's how compromise is supposed to work. (source)alternatives = different possibilities
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Alternatively, you should have left Useless the Elder and his younger brother at home!† (source)Alternatively = as another possibility
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Yet, he felt there must be an alternative, neither willfulness nor resignation. (source)alternative = other possibility
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alternative as in: alternative medicine
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I'm taking the pills the doctor prescribed, but I'm also looking into alternative medicine such as acupuncture.
alternative = non-standard
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The Amish lead an alternative lifestyle that limits the use of technology.
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There were these Goth types, and a lot of kids who dressed like punk rockers, you know, alternative types with weird hair. (source)alternative = non-traditional
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What was that about alternative communication? (source)alternative = non-standard
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Then, she took me down to the import section and told me about "real" alternative music. (source)alternative = non-traditional
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Unless this is one of your alternative-style statements. (source)alternative = non-traditional or non-standard
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I often had this feeling when I worked on Walter's case, that if the anguish of all the stressed lives, the pain of all of the oppressed people in all of the menaced spaces of Monroe County could be gathered in some carefully constructed receptacle, it could power something extraordinary, operate as some astonishing alternative fuel capable of igniting previously impossible action. (source)alternative = non-traditional
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It wasn't these instructionals as such that generated the cash surplus, they explained: it was the equipment and the alternative medicines you needed in order to get the optimum effect. (source)alternative = non-traditional or non-standard
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And the world the squad discovers below the road, the network of Vietcong tunnels (although nothing like the real ones), complete with an officer condemned to stay there for his crimes, is every bit as much an alternative world as the one Alice encounters in her adventure. (source)alternative = different (non-standard)
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Unlike me, she cared about the myriad pop musical distinctions: punk, indie, alternative, hard-core, emo-core. (source)alternative = non-standard
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"That is your earpiece. I will give you exactly one more chance to wear it. If you remove it from your ear again, I'll have you fitted with this." He holds up some sort of metal headgear that I instantly name the head shackle. "It's an alternative audio unit that locks around your skull and under your chin until it's opened with a key." (source)
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The Fountain School was an "alternative learning space," also known as the Hippie School. (source)alternative = non-traditional or non-standard
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The ads were put on billboards and in "wild postings" on construction-site walls and in alternative magazines. (source)alternative = non-traditional
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The R.O.F.L. Co-op—an employee-run cooperative promoting healthy alternative lifestyles and organic foods. (source)
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