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Discover LudwigThe phrase "instead of as" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion
It can be used when contrasting two different ways of doing something, but it is better to clarify the context. Example: "You should approach the problem instead of as a challenge, view it as an opportunity."
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Mathematicians and physicists often use instead of as.
write empty hexadecimal string fields as empty fields instead of as "-1".
"We took the Carolina name as a weight on us instead of as motivation.
At U.C.L.A., about one-third of the admitted students arrive as transfers instead of as freshmen.
I tried to think of myself as a writer instead of as a novelist.
"But people are looked at as a necessary evil," instead of as an investment.
"A trauma cast out of time, experienced continuously, if unconsciously, instead of as a discrete event".
"Some supervisors speak of them as kids instead of as students," he says.
In fine dining, they work as buses and runners, instead of as server and bartenders.
How do we get them to see plants as interesting instead of as wallpaper?
Storing energy as heat, instead of as electricity, is substantially cheaper.
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