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Example sentences for: instead

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I might have complained that Stiller and Garofalo--who instantly rub each other the wrong way--don't end up falling in love, and that the film pairs Stiller instead with a conventional ingénue.
Instead, "America is now spending $7 billion a year defending itself against backpack nuclear bombs, canisters of nerve gas and petri dishes of germ weapons planted in crowded cities by an as-yet-unknown adversary."
It is the system of writing that the victorious Japanese wanted to impose on the defeated Australians, New Zealanders, and Americans at the end of World War II, forcing them to abandon Latin letters and use Chinese logographs as phonetic equivalents of English words instead.
However, in the spring of 2000 the FDNY asked that an activation console for the repeater system be placed instead in the lobby fire safety desk of each of the towers, making FDNY personnel entirely responsible for its activation.
It has always seemed to me that the two great mysteries of the universe are: "Why is there something instead of nothing?"