promising alternative
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpromisingandalternative
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promising
adjective
uk/ˈprɒm.ɪ.sɪŋ/us/ˈprɑː.mɪ.sɪŋ/
Something that is promising shows signs that it is going to be successful ...
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alternative
noun[C]
uk/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/us/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
something that is different from something else, especially from what is usual, and offering the possibility ...
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(Definition ofpromisingandalternativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This model offers apromisingalternativeto traditional school system policies.
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The authors concluded that it is apromisingalternativeand in some cases superior when inducing from imperfect and noisy examples.
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Bayesian analysis is apromisingalternativeapproach to classical statistics in incorporating uncertainty into health economic analysis.
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Few chemicals are currently available to control this fly, pointing to biological control as apromisingalternative.
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Per-operative transoesophageal echocardiography is now apromisingalternative.
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Apromisingalternativeto the use of anthelmintics is the development of methods of immunological control of parasites by vaccination.
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We consider their technique as apromisingalternativeto our logical approach.
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A morepromisingalternativeto contrastivism is a view we might call the 'close enough' view.
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More broadly, we believe that our template approach is apromisingalternativeto previous interoperability schemes for strongly-typed functional languages.
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A safer and morepromisingalternativewould be to use other plant parts such as apical buds and apical meristems for establishment of cultures.
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I conclude that the hopeful view is apromisingalternativethat deserves further exploration.
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Quantitatively this strengthening of the nation-state is a matter of fact, but none of the multi-national states in question ever represented anypromisingalternativeto the nation-state.
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In the next section, we present the 'synthesis' approach, which emerged recently in the context of innovation studies as apromisingalternativeto pursue this line of research.
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It has always been put forward as apromisingalternativeto the non-custodial options that are already available to the courts in such a case.
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The mostpromisingalternativeprocesses have now been identified and their likely development during the next decade are being assessed.
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We could and should rapidly scale up our investment in the morepromisingalternativeenergy sources, such as solar, wind, wave and tidal power.
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