alternating

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Alternating every two or three chapters, Ms. Seve and the actor Caleb Teaupa unfurl a blood- and brine-soaked epic set in and around the islands of long-ago Polynesia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Alternating between angry and exhausted, she bristles at acclimating to the domesticity that her prickly neighbor wives treat like a club handshake.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

Alternating between fixer and developer, the resulting images, each as unique as every ovary bearing person’s experience, allude to the anthropological, biological, psychosocial, biblical, and celestial.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2024

Alternating periods of higher demand for products have also helped, with jet fuel recently sprinting higher as diesel fell off.

From Reuters • Apr. 24, 2023

Alternating with this last whorl were three columns, all apparently perfectly formed and differing only from the ordinary one in their smaller size and corresponding to a 1, a 2, a 3.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.