"discovering an alternative" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it in a sentence when talking about finding or considering a different option or solution to a problem or situation. Example: After struggling to find a suitable vacation destination, we ended up discovering an alternative beach town that was less crowded and more affordable.
A mysterious mobile phone in a courier package, some menacing guys wearing sunglasses indoors and discovering an alternative realm of reality – just a standard day in the office for Keanu Reeves's Neo, then.
For many readers, large stretches of Watchman will be like discovering an alternative version of The Catcher in the Rye in which JD Salinger casts the story of the adolescent Holden Caulfield as the dream of a paedophile Republican senator.
In Florida last week for a hunting trip (stay tuned to this space), I scheduled two extra days in the Orlando area with the intention of discovering an alternative (or supplement) to a theme park-themed visit.
Therefore, discovering an alternative support for the main catalyst is required to solve this crucial problem.
The studies are now focused on discovering an alternative for lead-based materials.
In that case, the FBI ultimately withdrew its court order, after discovering an alternative method for unlocking the device.
But scientists in Britain have discovered an alternative approach to protecting these animals.
Months later, almost by chance, I discovered an alternative route to a medical license.
At the National Chrysanthemum Society's annual show in northern Virginia, a steady stream of visitors discovered an alternative world of mums – blooms of rare size, colour and form.
But luckily, long before this year's announcement by Hershey that it was closing the Berkeley plant and consolidating Scharffen Berger production in Illinois, I discovered an alternative.
In the book's introduction, the curator Sheena Wagstaff, who, in 2001, curated an exhibit of Almond's work at the Tate, writes that Almond's "strangely tinted world" is part of his quest, like those of his predecessors, "to discover an alternative vision of the landscape".
