Alternative
Alternative noun - The power, right, or opportunity to choose.
License and alternative are semantically related. In some cases you can use "License" instead a noun "Alternative".
License
License noun - The approval by someone in authority for the doing of something.
Alternative and license are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alternative" instead a noun "License".
Both words in one sentence
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Vanity License Plate: KITT's standard tags read KNIGHT (though there is a switch in the cockpit to flip them to an alternative).
Source: Series / Knight Rider -
Could be excused as extreme Artistic License, but the books' information says that the series was the alternative to a nonfiction book the author wanted to write about owls, and thus she attempted to include owls' natural history.
- Artistic License- Alternative Medicine: One episode involves Prince Charles plotting to cure all the world's illnesses by putting a drop of an extremely potent medicine into the ocean, thus (by the laws of homeopathy) making it infinitely diluted and infinitely powerful.
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