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Example sentences for: instead

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Instead of searching for new antibiotics by modifying existing ones, some researchers are trying something completely different—first finding the most vulnerable targets in a bacterium and then designing something that hits one or more of them hard.
But I have been enraged at his repeated comment about how if Clinton had conducted his affair with a supermodel instead of a tubby intern he would have been regarded as a hero.
Instead, Hutchison's solution to the nonproblem passed 99-0 in the Senate.
This system produces mature plants in four to six weeks instead of the several months required under ordinary growing conditions.
Blair cannot attack the substance of Tory policies without attacking his own, so he must attack the government's rhetoric instead.