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Meanings of what ifs in English
Russian
альтернативная история Portuguese
história alternativa Spanish
ucronía Catalan
història alternativa Genre of speculative fiction, where one or more historical events occur differently.
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Examples for "alternate history"
Examples for "alternate history"
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Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore is a 1953 novel of alternate history.
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Spaceflight is risky, yet in this alternate history all missions occur exactly as planned.
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History may be written by the winners, but alternate history is encoded by the thinkers.
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She continued, relating an alternate history of their family.
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What seems like a devastating premise actually yields a much richer alternate history for NASA.
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[Footnote: He illustrated this proposition by a fanciful reconstruction of European history from 100 to 800 A.D. in his UCHRONIE, 1876.
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A marvellous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror and alternative history.
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An alternative history for the Beatles and their role in world peace is also offered.
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Thanks to this neat framing device, what was once obsolete sci-fi is now alternative history.
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There is a huge volume of work on the Templars-from serious scholarship to pseudo-academic alternative history.
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Harris's book kept calling me back to a neglected classic of alternative history, Keith Roberts's Pavane.
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In this alternative reality armed response becomes, if not logical, then at least debatable.
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Have I woken up in some fevered (but still awesome) alternative reality?
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Conservative media nurture their own hothouse alternative reality and regard any challenge thereto as illegitimate.
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He understands the desire for the special experience, that element of alternative reality, of freedom.
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His deceptions are widely endorsed as an alternative reality.
Usage of what ifs in English
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But despite our best efforts, it's hard to overlook the what ifs.
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Consider too the ' what ifs?' -would what you have suggested still work?
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The what ifs and the should haves will eat your brain.
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But of course it's useless to think in what ifs.
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You can say a lot of what ifs, there are so many different scenarios.
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All these ' what ifs' were just filling my brain with more and more fear.
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The Donald selection remains one of the biggest ' what ifs' in South African cricket history.
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Not that there's anything wrong with exploring what ifs.
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He'd been there, done that, agonized over the " what ifs" too many times.
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Not give me an endless stream of what ifs.
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Still, there are so many " what ifs" with this Bulldogs squad.
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It will be another tiresome summer of what ifs and maybes if it is the latter.
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She may have battled with injury since the Wimbledon victory, but there are no more ' what ifs'.
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I am consumed with what ifs.
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The " what ifs" flood into my sleepy consciousness.
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But those were all just " what ifs."
Translations for what ifs
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