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Adverb
  1. In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative.
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He has enough shirt buttons undone to wear a medallion, but instead affects a necklace.
Buy different types of bread from a baker's instead of flabby sliced white loaves.
But instead of calling up a drawn map, the site uses pictures taken from satellites and aircraft to give an aerial view of a territory.
It was also felt that in almost all cases the affected authorities would strongly object to the taking of a freehold interest instead of a lease.
You half expect to see orange dimpled leather instead of eye whites when you look at him, but there is nothing robotic about him.
So some pirates now take hostages instead of ships or cargo, and ransom them for tens of thousands of dollars.

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