Alternative of Bridge table in data Modelling.

Hello Gurus,
while doing the data modeling, we found one place where we have Many to Many joins between One Fact and 3 Dim.
where in Dim., we mostly have only one attribute/ Dim, which relates Many to Many with Fact.
so as in obiee we have to build the bridge table to take care of the issue.
is there any alternative method of data modeling that can eliminate the Bridge table itself?
I was thinking to add the dim attribute in fact itself. though it's with diff grain it should work??

If you really have a many-to-many relationship from fact to dimension, which attribute value (which of the many) would you put on the fact?
What is the issue you are having with a bridge table?

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