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Example sentences for: rather

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The very title is a small masterpiece of ironic wit, being a misquotation rather than an accurate transcription from Bacon's essays.
Early last year, the Justice Department allowed Coia to oversee a massive cleanup of his union, rather than filing a racketeering lawsuit, removing Coia, and putting the union under government control.
Imanishi thus brought the culture concept down to its most basic feature, that is, the social rather than genetic transmission of behavior.
F. Some wise guy describing Dan Rather (OK, it was me)
Richard Bernstein praises the novel as "a funny, melancholy, romantic, disturbing, character-rich window on the war" (the New York Times ). But others complain that "the influences of Joseph Heller's classic Catch-22 and Louis de Bernières' recent Corelli's Mandolin are rather too blatantly present" and make the novel feel overly familiar.