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The word 'instead' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to replace one thing with another. For example: "I wanted to go to the movies, but I decided to stay home instead."
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instead
adverb
In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative.
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"It was a judgment on our failure to move out of the comfort zone of critiquing the Tories and instead set out a positive alternative.
Instead, a Labour government will raise them at least in line with inflation in every budget".
Since last July the state has opted to use just one massive dose of the sedative pentobarbital as its lethal injection, instead of a cocktail of three different drugs.
"The parents were hoping he would come with some information for them about where the girls may be and what efforts are being done to recover them, but instead to be told he is not coming was not easy for them.
I wish we were having the election at the end of the debate, not instead of the debate.
She added that the yield could eventually rise half a percentage point more than if the president nominated Ms. Yellen instead.
Richard Locke, a political scientist at M.I.T. who is an expert on global supply chains and the author of the new book "The Promise and Limits of Private Power," told me, "Instead of buying lots of inventory with long lead times, brands wait as long as possible before ordering".
It's possible, in fact, that the crisis, instead of eroding the reputational advantages of the big banks, ended up bolstering them.
Instead, they typically pay lower interest rates on deposits than smaller banks do, and charge higher interest rates on loans.
Instead, a hefty chunk of the increase in consumption in recent decades has been the result of higher housing prices, the rising cost of medical care, more spending on education, and childcare.
Then, instead of looking at the fundamentals of the securities themselves, they simply assumed that they could rely on the credit ratings the ratings agencies bestowed, even though those agencies' conflicts of interest were well-known.
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