Sentence examples for and instead for from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "and instead for" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to convey a contrast or substitution, but the structure is flawed.
Example: "I wanted to go to the beach, and instead for the mountains, I ended up at home."
Alternatives: "and instead of" or "rather than".

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The terms freethinker, humanist and rationalist were also frequently heard, used to alter the emphasis from being "against" theism and instead "for" scientific reasoning and logical thought.

Upon Frick's death in 1919, Princeton received an unrestricted bequest of $6 million -- still not designated for a chemistry laboratory, and instead for faculty salaries -- but in recognition of Frick's "earlier interest and his subsequent bequest," trustees named the original chemistry lab in Frick's honor when funds became available to build it years later.

Thus, it would be premature to conduct inferential statistics at this time and instead, for each measure, we calculated the mean, standard deviation, 95% confidence interval (CI), and then used Cohen's d effect sizes for repeated measures to determine the magnitude of the changes we observed (Leon et al. 2011).

Brueys gave orders to abandon the plan to remain at anchor and instead for his line to set sail.

Then, as now, Chelsea were almost universally disliked, although less for their oil baron-bought athletes (they didn't have them then, they had Ed de Goey. And I challenge any human alive to legitimately hate Gianfranco Zola) and instead for their, uh, 'robust' (i.e racist with a propensity to extreme violence) element to their support.

EH: I'd like to sell a completed novel,"The Look Thief," which features an author character who has discovered she can't write the semi-autobiographical novel she tried to and instead, for reasons that emerge, writes the tense story of a woman character stalked and harassed by a man in a burgeoning Austin of the 1980's-2000.

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Shockingly, some have argued for abandoning the struggle for integration and instead fighting for equal if separate schools.

Can we forget the medication for cholesterol and instead reach for the antibiotics to prevent heart attacks?

I decided that culture would not be for me and instead searched for companies with high profiles on the HRC Corporate Equality Index.

Skip tiramisu and profiteroles, and opt instead for the rustic blueberry tart ($5) or the compact French-style startberry tart ($5).

It avoids quick judgments and bromides and opts instead for a carefully considered analysis of this phenomenon.

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