alternatively

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Previously, corporations had the choice of paying California tax based on their share of sales in the state or, alternatively, a formula that factored more heavily their in-state payroll and property.

From The Wall Street Journal

Or, alternatively, did your mom share the news and then refuse to discuss it again?

From Washington Post

Despite photographs of the ravaged hospital and victims of the bombing, corroborated by the United Nations, Russian officials denied having hit the hospital, or alternatively said it had not been used as a hospital.

From New York Times

Nonetheless, Munster says he is not completely convinced of two spillover events because, alternatively, the virus might have evolved from one lineage into the other within a person who was immunocompromised.

From Scientific American

In Washington, Republicans and right-wing pundits have alternatively criticized the Biden administration for doing too little to help Ukraine, or for doing too little to appease Russia.

From Washington Post