alternative reality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofalternativeandreality
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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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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 ofalternativeandrealityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It became a social enclave in which members were given opportunities to create analternativereality.
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He manipulates them to create analternativereality, but his preoccupation with them amounts to an artistic limbo in the modern world.
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The notion ofalternativerealityimplies quite distinctive social worlds such that individuals living in each would have no way of knowing about the other's world.
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On the contrary, they were abstract and devoid of any interactional context and therein lies the problem with which a researcher is confronted who findsalternativerealityan appealing concept.
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After being contacted by an alien, he discovers that the transporter interacted with an alien time-stream and sent him into analternativereality.
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The environment all of the authors have created is analternativerealityin which influential historical figures all belong to a single family.
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Not being able to lie has resulted in thisalternativerealityhaving no religions.
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The psychiatrist in the novel then analyzes thisalternativerealityrather than the world he shares with his patient.
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It has been hinted that she married him in analternativerealityand had several children.
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In a communist society where criticizing current social norms was forbidden,alternativerealitywas good metaphor, and even better, safe.
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The book takes place in analternativerealitywith the world powered by cold fusion and steam trains are still in use.
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Schremph commented that all of the changes made it feel like analternativerealityepisode, such as was featured in season eight.
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