alternative path
collocation in Englishmeaningsofalternativeandpath
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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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path
noun[C]
uk/pɑːθ/us/pæθ/
a route or track between one place and another, or the direction in which something ...
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(Definition ofalternativeandpathfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofalternative path
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The reader can see that there are no quantifiers over alternative paths.
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Other subjects will discover alternative paths and take different roads.
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Generally, apparent motion tends to be experienced over the shorter of two such alternative paths.
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Changes provide insight into the evolution of the design, showing alternative paths that the user explored and basic strategies used to produce the final results.
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Along alternative paths, externality avoidance generates a self-reinforcing incentive that pulls labour away from the externality-producing activity.
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It fails in finding any mistake and analternativepathto the goal and concludes that the given instruction was incorrect.
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They then diverted to analternativepath, that of singlehood.
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If it is believed that analternativepathmodel specification would lead to different conclusions, then alternative specifications can be easily tested.
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On the other hand, it is unclear that analternativepathof legal development might not have begun with nuisance doctrine and gone from there.
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However, as no such study exists, this assessment follows analternativepath.
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The charge of inconsistency is reinforced if we turn to thealternativepathto establishing a remedial obligation: where there has been breach of a prior duty.
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It also provides readers with an understanding of why particular countries followed the path that they did, rather than somealternativepathof financial market evolution.
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In the past, contractors have always tried to provide analternativepath.
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I am pleased to say that the owner of the land is now agreeable to a sale and thealternativepathshould be provided well within the two-year extension period.
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There will have to be analternativepathand not a right of way so that there will not be any need to undedicate the original path.
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We want to strengthen thatalternativepath.
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High frequency signals are attenuated in the shunt clipper as the diode capacitance provides analternativepathto output current.
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Analternativepathto power to parliamentary politics was demonstrated.
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In case of any failure, the destination switches onto thealternativepath/route.
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As the train is late, the two decide to go for analternativepathand take a road through the fields.
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