Sentence examples for acceptable alternative words from inspiring English sources

This cannot be the case: in 95 out of 756 choices between acceptable alternative words in reconstructing Lucretius's De Rerum Natura, n(j) = 0, giving a meaningless ΔI → log2 [n(i /0] each time.

From this follows the difficilior lectio potior principle (DLP) that, to recover the information lost, an editor does well to choose the less common of two equally acceptable alternative words as more likely the author's original.

But why be concerned with information at all if DLP maintains simply that an editor will more often be correct in choosing the less common of equally acceptable alternative words?

Particularly strong correlation is to be expected in cases to which DLP applies, because the condition that the alternative words be more or less equally acceptable will drastically limit possible co-occurrences.

I was, in my own words, "a reluctant warrior," but I saw no personally acceptable alternative to answering my country's call.

Santorum has not provided an acceptable alternative.

Unfortunately for scientists, equations are rarely an acceptable alternative.

But there is no acceptable alternative to peace.

then the audiobook would be an entirely acceptable alternative.

Second-class citizenship was not an acceptable alternative to the Massachusetts Court and should not be an acceptable alternative to the Connecticut legislature.

I can't, because I haven't found an acceptable alternative.