take turns
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If you each take turns listening to each other’s problems ad nauseum, no one wins.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Instead, they take turns to silently perform a series of moves and poses that look, to the untrained eye, as if they are playing charades or, as they writhe on the ground, breakdancing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Antonio Nusa and Andreas Schjelderup take turns playing on the left wing and have serviced Haaland well.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Things happen like this in history, countries take turns, sometimes gradual, sometimes abrupt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
We take turns dancing on the bed, then leaping off.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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