as an alternative
Example Sentences
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When he's fit, I'd see Carse as an alternative to Tongue – a wicket-taking option when the ball gets older.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
Rising Treasury yields can sometimes drag on stocks by increasing the cost of borrowing for businesses and consumers and making bonds more appealing as an alternative investment.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
In that opinion, Roberts not only assured readers that things had changed in the South; he pointed to Section 2 as an alternative means of providing protection to minority voters on a national basis.
From Slate • May 13, 2026
Called High Performance, it would become one of a handful of magazines in Los Angeles at the time that documented ephemeral art and functioned as an alternative space for performance artists.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
In the Tychonic, or geoheliocentric, system, invented as an alternative to Copernicanism in 1588, the planets circle the sun, and the sun and moon circle the Earth.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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