Alternative
Alternative adjective - Necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities.
Supporting and alternative are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Supporting" instead an adjective "Alternative".
Supporting
Supporting adjective - Serving to give support to the truth or factualness of something.
Alternative and supporting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alternative" instead an adjective "Supporting".
Both words in one sentence
- Even The Computer does eventually get suspicious about sole survivors, though, so one suggested alternative is to bribe/blackmail some of your surviving teammates into supporting your story.
Source: Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit - QUILTBAG: A Penny and Aggie Spin-Off which follows two of its supporting characters to college and explores themes of alternative sexualities.
Source: Slice-of-Life Webcomics -
No one in the family (except Aeka), expected the marriage to go down, and the whole point was to keep anti-integration activists from supporting Aeka as an alternative to Yosho as king.
Source: Deliberate Values Dissonance
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