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Participants alternately clenched their toes (rock), spread them apart (paper) and crossed the big toe over the others (scissors).
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Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 29 Apr. 2026
An especially visually striking debut, Mosquitoes exists in a saturated hyperreality that is consummately engrossing, and announces the Bertani sisters as formidable portraitists of girlhood cast against the backdrop of an alternately beautiful and oppressive world.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026
With mixer on low speed, add flour mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture, until just combined.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
The word itself—diálogo in Spanish—means a conversation between two or more people who alternately express their ideas.
—Leonardo Padura, Time, 23 Apr. 2026
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Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 29 Apr. 2026
An especially visually striking debut, Mosquitoes exists in a saturated hyperreality that is consummately engrossing, and announces the Bertani sisters as formidable portraitists of girlhood cast against the backdrop of an alternately beautiful and oppressive world.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026
With mixer on low speed, add flour mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture, until just combined.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
The word itself—diálogo in Spanish—means a conversation between two or more people who alternately express their ideas.
—Leonardo Padura, Time, 23 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alternately
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Or alternatively, too cold and critical.—
Christopher Edwards,
PEOPLE,
28 May 2026
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If air conditioning isn't an option, consider other ways to lower your bedroom's temperature or, alternatively, your body's temperature.—
Jennifer Klump,
Verywell Health,
18 May 2026
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An entire mission directing six blasts against three Russian frontline targets in eastern Ukraine will involve no Ukrainian troops on the ground, the battle instead directed from gamer chairs, observed from reconnaissance drones above, run over dedicated livestreams.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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The new method instead incorporates physiological feedback from the insect, enabling the technology to respond to its state in real time.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
30 May 2026
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“Alternately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alternately. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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