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The phrase "appealing substitute" is grammatically correct in written English.
You could use it any time you wanted to describe something as a pleasing substitute for something else. For example, "After finding my favorite dish was out of stock, I was happy to settle for an appealing substitute."
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And although the kitchen was out of the listed watercress, arugula made an appealing substitute for a salad with walnuts, slivers of pear, corn and crumbled gorgonzola set in a cunning little basket of melted parmesan (cestino di parmigiano).
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They also can be functionally and cosmetically appealing substitutes for eyeglasses to treat myopia (nearsightedness) and other visual defects.
Reading has become a strenuous exercise, and since movies, television and Monarch Notes require little effort, they have become appealing substitutes.
For these students, the terminology gave the appearance of appealing to substituted judgment standard even as the substance of the student's valuation was not compatible with that standard.
Though video games and the internet may be appealing, nothing can substitute real life friends and community.
KIA SPORTAGE Chunky and appealing, the redesigned crossover substitutes a 176-horsepower 2.4-liter 4-cylinder engine for the previous V-6.
To me, a vegetarian substitute is seeming more and more appealing.
Sometimes their recipes are more interesting than appealing; it is hard to imagine working up an appetite for Tibetan bone broth, even if you take their advice and substitute oxtails or beef shanks for the yak.
Sound appealing?
Aesthetically appealing?
Appealing peel.
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