alternate timeline

English

Noun

alternate timeline (plural alternate timelines)

  1. Alternative form of alternative timeline.
    • 2025 March 18, Samuel Moyn, “Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 March 2025:
      This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics.