alternative interpretation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofalternativeandinterpretation
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alternative
adjective
uk/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/us/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
An alternative plan or method is one that you can use if you do not want to use ...
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interpretation
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪnˌtɜː.prəˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ɪnˌtɝː.prəˈteɪ.ʃən/
an explanation or opinion of what ...
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(Definition ofalternativeandinterpretationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I would assert that thisalternativeinterpretationprovides a better way to read the central claim of purpose theory.
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We do not claim that we have a full-blownalternativeinterpretationfor all the experimental results put forth by the commentators.
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In these examples, seem cannot have scope over two, although thealternativeinterpretationis available.
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Analternativeinterpretationof the ratio of production to destruction terms is possible.
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Her argument over the unifying power of the dead is also open toalternativeinterpretation.
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Analternativeinterpretationof such utterances could be a failure of movement and a filling of the postverbal position with lexical material.
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Yet three of these glyphs were placed next to the faces of the personages, leading to thealternativeinterpretationthat these are ornamented speech scrolls.
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I then show that analternativeinterpretationwhich places these segments in the syllable nucleus must be rejected for distributional reasons.
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In a context such as (18), analternativeinterpretationis found, since the default interpretation is contradicted by the context.
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Further consideration suggests analternativeinterpretation, that when the dominant effect of social relationship quality is controlled, greater income does not produce greater personal wellbeing.
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In certain cases, thisalternativeinterpretationmay circumvent the potentially problematic inclusion of newly composed polyphonic works within the coronation rite proper.
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For the context sensitive vowel items in the present study analternativeinterpretationof the results is possible, however.
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However, analternativeinterpretationis that children exhibiting symptoms of anxiety and depression may engage in relational aggression as a result.
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There is, of course, analternativeinterpretationof this result.
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Let me conclude by pointing the way to analternativeinterpretationof civil rights reform and its legacy for antiracist politics now.
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The problem with this argument is that it tacitly dismisses an importantalternativeinterpretation.
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Nonetheless, there is analternativeinterpretationof the relation between authority and creativity.
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