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alternate

[awl-ter-neyt, al-, awl-ter-nit, al-] / ˈɔl tərˌneɪt, ˈæl-, ˈɔl tər nɪt, ˈæl- /
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substitute
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Alternate rent indicators do show that rents are softening.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Alternate proposals would make Donnyland into an economic development zone — a city-state like Monaco on the French Mediterranean that could be semiautonomous.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026

Alternate Aileen Geving, 38, is also a three-time Olympian.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

Appeared in the September 24, 2025, print edition as 'An Alternate Public-Health Universe Emerges'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025

“All of this is just...hypothetical! Alternate worlds are just hypothetical!”

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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