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Instead

(adverb) In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative. Example: "I was going to go shopping, but I went dancing instead."

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"Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Can you seek your own approval instead of theirs?"
— Sophia Joan
"People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one."
— Marilyn Monroe

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