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alternately

ADVERB
by turns
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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

The way “asses.masses” shifted tones and tenor recalled a game such as “Kentucky Route Zero,” another serialized and alternately realistic and fanciful game with political overtones.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

He approves of credit, too, despite the human proclivity to alternately gorge and fast on loans and bonds and mortgages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

None of that means, mind you, that this alternately idiotic and delusional document — described in that Economist editorial, using an enjoyable Anglo-idiom, as “a dog’s breakfast” — is not dangerous.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

I have moved out a bit farther into the shallows, floating alternately on my belly and back.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins




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