alternative possibility
collocation in Englishmeaningsofalternativeandpossibility
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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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possibility
noun
uk/ˌpɒs.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/ˌpɑː.səˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
a chance that something may happen or ...
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(Definition ofalternativeandpossibilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Of course, analternativepossibilityis that some households (particularly low-assets households) may be liquidity constrained.
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Analternativepossibilityis that endocannabinoid stimulated spontaneous transmission is a phenomenon found at synapses between inhibitory neurons.
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Differences in various details of arrangement among these groups may reflect social class differences, but analternativepossibilitymay be suggested: heterarchy (see later).
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Analternativepossibilityis that older infants will behave similarly to the 6- to 8-month-olds and discriminate only one boundary along the continuum.
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Thealternativepossibilitymust be considered that in many of these the pregnancy led to a marriage which might otherwise not have occurred, a marriage of two possibly immature people.
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Onealternativepossibilitywould be to use a set instead of a bag in the specification, enabling us to use idempotence as well.
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Thealternativepossibilitywas that the fish is using its color vision for object motion.
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Analternativepossibilityis that hue and contrast might be carried by different subsets of channels with different proper ties.
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Analternativepossibilityis that the tsetse data do not adequately reflect the tsetse challenge to cattle in the rainy season.
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Analternativepossibilitywas that children deal with ignorant speakers' wordreferent links by deploying an ' encoding and marking ' strategy.
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Analternativepossibilityis the generation of textual summaries.
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Analternativepossibility(which we will not discuss further here) is that either or both of the nouns may be assigned masculine gender by default.
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Analternativepossibilityis that the time of exposure during development to an effective dose of a teratogen could produce distinct outcomes.
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Therefore, the uniqueness approach as the existence of the limit (8.8) is analternativepossibility.
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Analternativepossibilityto "depolarization block" is synaptic transmission failure by transmitter depletion.
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We cannot exclude analternativepossibilitythat the observers are making involuntary saccades to the target edge.
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Analternativepossibilityis that some cell-cycle genes might affect the transcriptional machinery after the cells have exited from the cell cycle.
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Analternativepossibilityis that the rapid initial decline was itself due to an environmental change.
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