rather

Example Sentences

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Wires should be insulated with silicone rather than PVC, which can crack.

From The Wall Street Journal

This approach, known as in situ resource utilization, allows explorers to use materials already available on another planet rather than transporting everything from Earth.

From Science Daily

"I'd rather find artefacts - they belong to somebody and you think 'What were they doing there?'" he says.

From BBC

But their emphasis here presents Man Ray, who was a talented portrait photographer, as an experimentalist chasing rather than creating imagery.

From The Wall Street Journal

But, he said, any tool in existence can be used to harm or help, and he’d rather make well-intended progress than none at all.

From Los Angeles Times