alternative
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Baseball was an ideal alternative universe for Coover to use in 1968.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Hungary's incoming prime minister says he wants to diversify Hungary's oil supplies, especially by making better use of an alternative pipeline from the Croatian island of Krk.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
It is what a refinery pays when the alternative is going out of business entirely.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
However, as Parry noted, both had alternative causes and weren’t linked to drug-induced liver injury.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 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
Vocabulary lists containing alternative
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The Catcher in the Rye
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