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alternation

noun as in repeated rotation

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“Some sort of alternation occurred which resulted in multiple shots being fired,” Golan told KTLA-TV.

The alternation between analytic calm and hysteria can be exhausting.

The variety of locations, the alternation of tone and predicaments as the series skips between threads, keeps it from becoming too emotionally, too existentially wearing.

Also, recordings of a kind of electrical dialog between fish featured highly-precise turn-taking in which the fish emitted their electrical discharges in strict alternation.

"They have two legs, so they can have regular trousers, but their hip is very wide so you have to take that to the alternations shop too."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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