as in rather
as a substitute
I was offered a ride, but I chose to walk instead
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These behaviors are not explicitly programmed but instead emerge as a result of the model’s interaction with the reinforcement learning environment.
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ArsTechnica, 7 July 2025
While most houses of this era were a chaotic collection of rooms and meandering hallways, the Robie House (and most of Wright’s homes) instead has an open floor plan—a revolutionary design choice at the time.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 July 2025
This is never mentioned in The Salt Path book, which instead says that Raynor Winn and her husband lost their home after being taken advantage of by a childhood friend of Moth Winn’s.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 July 2025
At the same time, the Trump administration recently withdrew support for relocating the FBI headquarters to a 61-acre site in Greenbelt, Maryland, instead backing a new location at the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington, D.C., just blocks from the existing J. Edgar Hoover Building.
—Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 7 July 2025
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ArsTechnica, 7 July 2025
While most houses of this era were a chaotic collection of rooms and meandering hallways, the Robie House (and most of Wright’s homes) instead has an open floor plan—a revolutionary design choice at the time.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 July 2025
This is never mentioned in The Salt Path book, which instead says that Raynor Winn and her husband lost their home after being taken advantage of by a childhood friend of Moth Winn’s.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 July 2025
At the same time, the Trump administration recently withdrew support for relocating the FBI headquarters to a 61-acre site in Greenbelt, Maryland, instead backing a new location at the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington, D.C., just blocks from the existing J. Edgar Hoover Building.
—Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 7 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for instead
rather
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Some can serve as bulking agents, absorbing and retaining water all that stuff moving through your gastrointestinal tract so that in the end, or rather out the end your poo can move more readily.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Neither of the ladies’ approaches is at all effective and, instead, rather harmful.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
24 July 2025
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“Instead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instead. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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