alternately
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Mr. Lewis is alternately magnetized and repulsed by Sellers and goes to exhaustive lengths to comprehend him, eventually resorting to quoting Sellers—a believer in the power of the Ouija board—via a spiritual medium.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 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
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
Early on, the beats are spiky and distorted, and Rocky seems alternately irritated and angry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
I lean against one of the large spoked wheels and pass the time alternately picking slivers from beneath my nails and chewing long pieces of grass.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
Vocabulary lists containing alternately
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