Advance
Rather
Rather adverb - By choice or preference.
Both words in one sentence
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Expy: Several of the Days of Ruin COs have similarities — rather jarring ones — with the earlier Advance Wars ones.
- Chapters 12 and 13 of Super Robot Wars W don't advance the plot at all, but rather are two Full Metal Panic?
Source: Breather Episode - Contrast Stat Grinding (where skills advance when the player uses them, rather than advancing for the player to use them).
Source: Equipment-Based Progression
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