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Discover LudwigThe phrase "agrees instead" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to indicate that someone is choosing to agree with one option over another.
Example: "After much discussion, she agrees instead to the proposal that was initially rejected."
Alternatives: "chooses to agree" or "opts to concur."
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Jerry proposes to Dale, who, while still believing that Jerry is Horace, is disgusted that her friend's husband could behave in such a manner and agrees instead to marry Alberto.
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It agreed instead to resume talks on Monday.
But in December it agreed instead to build a special processing plant in Jilin province.
We agreed instead to the next proposed solution: large mouth bass.
But Mr. Cassata agreed instead to sell the property to Suffolk for $7.95 million.
I agreed, instead, to make up a character and write the column anonymously.
The Your Party has stopped cooperating with Restoration, agreeing instead to ally itself with the ailing Democratic Party in elections this summer.
Members agreed instead to develop a voluntary program for growers to measure the greenhouse gases generated by their plantations.
The government agreed instead to establish advisory panels made up of government and private-sector representatives around the world.
The elderly ex-king agreed instead to accept the more appropriate symbolic title of "father of the nation".
They agreed instead in their communiqué to place "great importance on the existing regimes of multilateral treaties".
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