as in alternately
in place of another option
We could go out for dinner or, alternatively, we could get takeout.
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alternately
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The result is a palpable mixture of Hollywood and British sensibilities, alternately brash and cozy-quirky, with the joins sometimes awkwardly felt.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
6 June 2025 -
To put it bluntly, this is an alternately weird and unsettling time to be in the news business — especially so for the cable news business.—
Andy Meek,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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“Alternatively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alternatively. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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