as in rather
as a substitute
I was offered a ride, but I chose to walk instead
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The Long-Term Stock Exchange, an exchange backed by major investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund, plans to soon petition the SEC to eliminate the quarterly earnings report requirement and instead allow companies to report results once every six months.
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Matt Egan, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Kyiv's allies have instead supplied it with air defense systems, missiles and aircraft in the hope on that Ukraine can provide its own no-fly zone.
—Robert Birsel
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Determining when a shift-change in persona vectors is taking place, such that an engaged persona vector is being disengaged, and a different persona vector is being engaged instead.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Voters instead delivered gains to both far-right and far-left parties.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
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Matt Egan, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Kyiv's allies have instead supplied it with air defense systems, missiles and aircraft in the hope on that Ukraine can provide its own no-fly zone.
—Robert Birsel
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Determining when a shift-change in persona vectors is taking place, such that an engaged persona vector is being disengaged, and a different persona vector is being engaged instead.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Voters instead delivered gains to both far-right and far-left parties.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for instead
rather
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Just not my cup of tea, or rather only in small doses.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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But those defenses, more then Vrabel's new unit, were interested in gap control and keeping everything in front of them rather then penetration and creating negative plays.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Instead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instead. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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