alternation

Example Sentences

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The alternation between analytic calm and hysteria can be exhausting.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024

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.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

Sitting on the chairs and toggling between resilience and collapse, in relay or alternation, they match the force of the electronically layered drums in Mikel Rouse’s prerecorded score.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2023

When I compared each toss outcome with the next, 24 of the 50 comparisons yielded a changed result—just the sort of nearly 50 percent alternation we would expect from coin tossing.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023

With some alternation of terms, some toning down, the passage could describe the building of a termite nest.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas