alternatively

Example Sentences

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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

They think that their lives are decent enough as they are, but not good enough to pass on — or, alternatively, not worth interrupting for something as demanding and not immediately rewarding as a baby.

From Washington Post

"The key question is whether this patient has actually cured themselves or, alternatively, had some form of abortive infection, which tried to get going but the embers were snuffed out early," he said.

From BBC