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Recent Examples of alternately The result is a palpable mixture of Hollywood and British sensibilities, alternately brash and cozy-quirky, with the joins sometimes awkwardly felt. Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 June 2025 To put it bluntly, this is an alternately weird and unsettling time to be in the news business — especially so for the cable news business. Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025 Benicio del Toro, alternately glowering and glib, stars as Anatole (Zsa-zsa) Korda, an Onassis-like figure of uninhibited ruthlessness. Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2025 Stir flour mixture into butter mixture, alternately with sour cream mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture, until batter is just combined. Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 28 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for alternately
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instead
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  • Kemp ignored the commands and instead accelerated and quickly came to a stop just in front of the sergeant.
    Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025
  • In an attempt to preserve public trust, the government instead broke it, Offit said.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 June 2025

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“Alternately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alternately. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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