as an alternative
Example Sentences
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Beijing in 2015 launched a payments platform—the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System, or CIPS—that serves as an alternative to Swift, the messaging infrastructure that links the world’s banks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
The Playground presents itself as "an alternative to passive or open-ended digital entertainment" amid "a growing national conversation around children's screen time habits".
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2026
The other big tech spenders may be forced to follow Alphabet’s lead in selling equity as an alternative to heaping on more debt.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
She urges the medical profession to study music’s ability to “kickstart new patterns of thought” through daydreams as an alternative to drugs.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
It was an iteration, a simultaneous arm and evolution of hip-hop, and, coolest of all—it was originally used as an alternative to physical violence.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
