alternately
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The building alternately puckers and swells, like the indolent flexing of a muscle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Willis was alternately a policeman and a naval officer.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Created by the L.A.-based multimedia collective Everything Is Terrible, WoWoW is alternately described as a “cosmic entity” and a “cartoony, root vegetable floating alien god.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Flippases such as MurJ move molecules by alternately exposing them to each side of the membrane without forming a permanent opening.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2026
At which point the hare stopped her stretching and proceeded to march back and forth, with her very long back feet alternately thrusting high in the air.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Vocabulary lists containing alternately
Shake It Up: Alter
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