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Adverb: instead  in'sted
  1. In place of, or as an alternative to
    "Felix became a herpetologist instead";
    - alternatively, or else, in lieu
     
  2. On the contrary
    "he didn't call; instead, he wrote her a letter"; "used English terms instead of Latin ones";
    - rather

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