alternate

"We've been looking into solar panels but there's very little support out there for people who might want to look at alternate ways for running their household."

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

In high school, he developed a love for mathematics: “If the teacher said do every alternate problem, I’d do every problem, just simply for the fun of doing it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Deportee” as performed by anybody is always heartbreaking, because there is no alternate interpretation.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

By dramatically reducing these losses, this alternate strategy significantly outperformed the traditional approach both in terms of raw, unadjusted performance as well as risk-adjusted performance.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

The only thing they’d achieved, coming to the alternate world, was to doom more people.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The rest of the album alternates between chaos and control, introspection and criticism, grungy beats and hazy surrealism.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

The novel alternates between the perspectives of Kate and the TV show’s writer, Phoebe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

With the jury of 12 members and six alternates approved on Friday, arguments in the case are now scheduled to begin Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court.

From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026

A population in the United States might experience seasonal temperature swings, while another in Kenya alternates between long dry spells and heavy rainfall.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 30, 2025

“Okay. Will do. I shall read the alternates first. Two fifth graders. Two from sixth grade. Amanda Firestone. Molly North. Elena Rodriguez. Rodney Mosul.”

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper

The economy has alternated between adding jobs and losing jobs for 10 months in a row, and the on-and-off streak is likely to extend into March.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026

They passed air through larynges removed from deceased horses and then alternated the airflow between normal air and helium.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2026

In one experiment, Adrian North and his colleagues at Leicester University alternated the music in a supermarket between French accordion and German oompah tunes.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026

He’s alternated single- and double-digit games over each of his past four games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2025

She sat next to him on the front seat—with two of the babies on her lap—and alternated between clutching Dad’s arm and closing her eyes in supplication.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

The tower of the former Pfizer headquarters was built in the 1960s, alternating sleek rows of metallic cladding and rectangular windows up a wedding-cake-shaped facade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Bipolar disorder is a lifelong mental health condition characterised by alternating periods of intense emotional highs and deep emotional lows.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

To transform the medium-voltage alternating current that the grid serves to most end users into higher-voltage direct current, Nvidia suggests companies use solid-state transformers instead of the old kind.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

“The camera view was alternating between the wildlife and the individual,” explained Washington.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

Her brothers understood perfectly, and tried to clarify by alternating a howling “ahwoo” with a friendly “hawoo.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood