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alterative
adjective
Causing alteration. Specifically: Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.
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He eventually defeated the illness with dietary supplements after experimenting with a number of alterative treatments.
Comic performance art was also in on the act, with Figs in Wigs taking an off-kilter look at female objectification in We Object, while in the charming but disturbing show Credible, Likeable Superstar Role Model, Bryony Kimmings and her nine year old niece Taylor, created an alterative aspirational pop star – complete with dance moves – to look at the sexualisation of tween girls.
The top graph shows a narrow picture of what is happening now; the bottom, some alterative projections for 2050.
The horse is now in the Gold Cup reckoning, but the alterative Festival scenario is to revert to the smaller obstacles for a tilt at the World Hurdle, followed by a trip to Aintree for the Grand National.
Construction on Cairo's third line, now under way, will bring trains from the working-class neighborhood of Imbaba all the way to the airport, providing an alterative to the clogged surface roads and bridges.
SPECULATIVE ENERGY What surprised me was that few of the analysts I spoke with were investing heavily in the types of alterative energy — solar, wind, electric-powered cars — that are promoted as the future of energy.
"Lupin is a very good alterative crop," said Greg Olwig, marketing manager of the U.S. Soybean Export Council, "but the major challenge facing the industry is their very minor production".
But the worst alterative would be to do nothing.
Rather than combating corruption and implementing sorely needed reforms to the judiciary and media sector, Prime Minister Hun Sen's government has shrunk space for alterative voices and independent institutions.
The project has attracted multinational partners, including the military contractor Lockheed Martin and UOP, a unit of Honeywell that supplies technologies to the petroleum industry and is here focused on converting the algal oil into an alterative jet fuel.
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In addition to the alterative-hygiene suggestions, other signs convey ways to save water and the dangers for those who do not: "Instead of washing clothes, don't wear any".
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