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Example Sentences

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One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Depending on the president’s decisions, a restructuring could wipe out existing shareholders or alternatively see them realize a return of hundreds of billions of dollars on their investments.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Anthropic’s counter was that all of its practices—from the training itself to the utilization of books its engineers had alternatively pirated and purchased for Claude training—constituted an instance of fair use and were perfectly legal.

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2025

Some people in many African countries believe that magic charms made from human body parts will bring them good luck, for example to become rich, or alternatively to curse their enemies.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2024

But it would have been better to rewrite the sentence to convey the contrast from the start, using an unambiguous connective such as alternatively.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker