alternatives

Example Sentences

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The agreement also drops a court-appointed monitor the city objected to and provides two alternatives and limited the fees to no more than $150,000 per year.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

The drop in Beyond Meat’s stock price follows an extended stretch of weaker demand for its products, as consumers dealing with higher living costs have steered clear of more expensive plant-based meat alternatives.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

That’s why Trivariate Research’s Adam Parker screened for alternatives to the stocks in his AI chip basket.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

Others caution, however, that frontier AI companies such as Anthropic could end up offering less-costly alternatives to Palantir’s services.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

A restrictive relative clause is essential to the meaning of the sentence, often because it pinpoints the referent of the noun from among a set of alternatives.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker