alternatives

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Emerald said in December that it was reviewing strategic alternatives after receiving takeover interest from multiple parties.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

Customer-service operations still rely heavily on underpaid and poorly trained humans, leading to general dissatisfaction across all service metrics, including wait times and repeat calls, with consumers increasingly resorting to equally unsatisfactory self-service alternatives.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

Such alternatives would only add about a negligible 20 nautical miles to journeys that sometimes exceed 10,000 nautical miles.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

When prices are going up, consumers may see a high price at a particular gas station and think it’s an outlier, so they look for alternatives — even if all stations are raising prices.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

For a time, big bang theory and steady-state theory lived side by side, alternatives that astronomers chose between depending on their philosophy.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife