options

NOUN

alternative

Synonyms

STRONGEST

benefit choice opportunity preference privilege right

STRONG

advantage claim dibs dilemma discretion druthers election franchise grant license pickup prerogative selection

WEAK

flipside free will other side of coin take it or leave it

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disadvantage misfortune

STRONG

loss refusal

Example Sentences

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The options facing Netanyahu now are not good.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026

“Elon finally agreed to the IPO greenshoe options … but only if the bankers all wore green shoes,” he wrote in a post on X on Friday.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 15, 2026

Drugmakers are also developing medications that target tau tangles in the brain so patients may have more options in the future.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026

Researchers say the results highlight the growing potential of oral GLP-1 medications to address some of the limitations associated with current treatment options.

From Science Daily • Jun. 15, 2026

It set the precedents, established in palpable fact what the Constitution had only outlined in purposely ambiguous theory, thereby opening up and closing off options for all the history that followed.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis