The phrase "alternative present" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could potentially be used in contexts discussing different forms of presenting information or alternatives to a current situation, but clarity is essential.
Example: "In our discussion, we explored the concept of an alternative present, where different choices led to varied outcomes."
Alternatives: "alternative reality" or "different scenario".
It's an alternative present, her great-niece explained.
With a whoosh, the X-Men go forward to the past, or possibly sideways to an alternative present.
In a weird future, or alternative present, all those who find themselves without a partner, for any reason, must attend a remedial hotel course with other singles.
She is a woman who is visited with unwanted visions, whether of the past or the future or some alternative present she often can't tell.
So we've had an alternative present that sees Hitler accidentally ruling over the east London borough, or the superheroes' lives being controlled by the words and actions of a cartoonist loner.
When Sofia and Maria Celia are dreaming, caught up in reveries of the past or an alternative present, the play has its own gently hypnotic rhythms; when the story wakes up to the real world, it turns into conventional melodrama.
But for better or worse the F.B.I. is the agency that has to take the lead in domestic security -- not necessarily because it has shown striking success in the past, but because no institutional alternative presents itself.
Judge Beckloff noted the lack of a reasonable alternative presented by lawyers for Katherine Jackson, Mr. Jackson's mother, alluding to a mention of a company starting up in the Middle East that might be able to handle the exhibitions.
With a serious democratic alternative presented by a largely united six-party opposition coalition, Croats voted in big numbers to turn their backs on their fiercely nationalist past, its tenor and repressions founded in the Yugoslav civil wars.
find a group of staff who are equally frustrated with, for example, your organisation's out-of-date website and spend a few hours creating an alternative, presenting the finished product to your bosses rather than asking for approval?
Each alternative presents its own unique and serious side effect profile.
