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Carob is sometimes used in sweet foods as a healthier alternative to chocolate.
Solar power is now a viable alternative to oil-fired water heaters.
The alternative is to tunnel a route through the mountain.另一个办法是挖一条穿山隧道。
In the absence of any better alternative, we will have to proceed with the original plan.
Imposing sanctions is a moderate action when you consider that the alternative is military intervention.如果考虑的另一选择是军事干预，你就会发现实施制裁不算是一项过分的行动。

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alternative | American Dictionary

alternative
noun[ C ]
us/ɔlˈtɜr·nə·t̬ɪv/
something that is different, esp. from what is usual; a choice:
You can make it look good by comparing it to a crummy alternative.
I have no alternative but to ask you to leave.
alternative
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɔlˈtɜr·nə·t̬ɪv/
offering a choice between two or more things:
People stay because they don’t have alternative opportunities.
Alternative medicine is a wide range of treatments for medical conditions that people use instead of, or with, Western medicine.

Examples of alternative

alternative
Each region in the mixing-length profile was then interpreted physically and alternative, physically based equations identified.
The model should be replaced only if an alternative model is proposed which provides a better summary of the 81 tasks.
Distinguishing between these two alternative hypotheses has important implications for the behaviour of political parties.
The reader can see that there are no quantifiers over alternative paths.
Over the past decade or so, there has been active development of alternative time-frequency representation schemes, independent of computer music research and largely theoretical.
Anxiety about the relativist abyss in which 'all pasts are equal' has thwarted efforts to evaluate alternatives to 'objective science'.
Search for alternatives can similarly be random or ordered.
The approach is a consequence of a new sequential tabling scheme based on dynamic reordering of alternatives with variant calls.
As the alternative for the stiff systems (having high ratio gears, high friction, etc.) we propose to use the tactile sensors.
There are at least three alternative explanations for our results other than evidence of a transmission cost to inducing symptoms.
But then one would be deploying an alternative conclusion of justice; one would not challenge it in the name of one of the rival claims.
Here, then, an alternative explanation of the equitable man is required.
The sample is then split in two alternative ways, first by the quality of government, and then by income level.
The behavioral result is that activation in this pathway is thought to facilitate top-down goal-oriented behavior and thereby simultaneously suppress alternative nongoal-oriented behaviors.
The effects of alternative assumptions about income growth are straightforward.
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Collocations withalternative

alternative

These are words often used in combination with alternative.

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acceptable alternative
British immigrants came from a country where accoucheurs were an increasingly acceptable alternative to midwives.
affordable alternative
People will not be persuaded to use cars less by this mechanism, because of the absence of public transport, unless there is an efficient, reliable and affordable alternative.
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