alternative narrative
collocation in Englishmeaningsofalternativeandnarrative
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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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narrative
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
a story or a description of a series ...
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(Definition ofalternativeandnarrativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Instead, he provides analternativenarrativeof the movement's emergence.
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But he offers a sketchy presentation of hegemony that seems predicated on the assumption that anyalternativenarrativeis counter-hegemonic.
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Section 4 reconceptualizes the notion of uncertainty in light of thealternativenarrative.
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The game hasalternativenarrativelines, with definite fixed story elements.
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Cigarette manufacturers present analternativenarrativeregarding product placement in movies.
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Field connected readily with poetry asalternativenarrativestructures and an ideal analogue for narrative symbolic imagery.
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But before they can be adopted as alternative narratives they have to be narrated and employed in convincing case studies.
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Contests for scarce resources in under-funded universities provide situations in which unhappy cohabitations may be remembered more than alternative narratives of co-operative ventures.
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Such alternative narratives of landscape are instead the preserve of local communities who use them to make continuing land claims on protected areas.
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Each of these experiences has a part to play in reconstructing critical and alternative narratives for midlife.
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This paper did not aim to construct alternative narratives of "founding fathers" in molecular biology.
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Although the contributors to this volume raise few evidential quibbles relating to previously published accounts of the period, they do bring fresh and often compelling alternative narratives.
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This platform is a piece of fiction that uses the video game format to create alternative narratives and perspectives.
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They write because they want to create a written record of alternative narratives that checks the power of these interests.
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Being critical is an absolute necessity when engaging in alternative narratives.
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The writer tests alternative narratives like clothes, and comes to the conclusion that none of the tested scenarios leads to an entirely fair outcome.
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