alternate reality

collocation in English

meaningsofalternateandreality

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alternate
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ɒlˈtɜː.nət/us
/ˈɑːl.tɝː.nət/
with first one thing, then another thing, and then the first ...
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reality
noun
uk
/riˈæl.ə.ti/us
/riˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the state of things as they are, rather than as they are imagined ...
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(Definition ofalternateandrealityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This suggests that the book takes place in analternatereality.
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However, thealternaterealityis actually the same reality, only years in the future.
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The three try to connect to a newspaper from analternaterealitybut find to their horror that no papers are published that day.
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The network of tie-in websites uses elements reminiscent of (although not as elaborate as)alternaterealitygames.
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His writing often blurs the reality andalternatereality.
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At this point, he rejects thealternatereality, and attempts to find a method to bring himself back.
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These websites are in-universe, part of analternaterealitygame set within the show.
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I really wanted to push the lighting and the environments to create the look and feel of analternatereality.
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If this is, in fact, the proper time frame, then the story must be viewed as taking place in analternatereality.
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Some consider them stories from the imaginations of authors and artists, while others think of them as taking place in analternatereality.
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It is a type ofalternaterealitygame.
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The album also received generally positive reviews, many of which were favorable toward the accompanyingalternaterealitygame.
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Marketing included cross-promotions and analternaterealitygame.
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Almost every joke succeeds, and the far-fetchedalternaterealitystoryline thoroughly entertains.
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Thealternaterealityparts took a year to devise, but came out well after filming and editing.
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This made the concert efficient, clobbering, expensive, generous, drenched in film and costumes and dancing close to analternatereality....
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In the fascinatingalternatereality, they find out that a demonic planet is approaching and threatens the lives of everyone over there.
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Clearly, thisalternaterealityknows about magic spells, and knows how to use them.
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