alternate

You have no legal duty to step forward, although you should notify the beneficiaries and any alternate executors named in the will as soon as possible.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

With dinner already half-imagined, I could pass the tomatoes and melons without treating each one as an alternate future I might regret abandoning.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Sony’s two animated “Spider-Verse” movies, which feature an alternate version of the superhero named Miles Morales, were award-winning hits that attracted younger audiences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Business owner Lorenzo, who entered the villa on day one, said he felt like he "manifested" meeting Julia, 26, in Casa Amor, the alternate villa where relationships are tested by new arrivals.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

We moved at the same speed, just with an alternate set of steps.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

The collaboration alternates between observing runs that collect scientific data and periods dedicated to commissioning and upgrading the detectors.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026

The rest of the album alternates between chaos and control, introspection and criticism, grungy beats and hazy surrealism.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

The novel then alternates its focus among three characters who are connected in the aftermath.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

With the jury of 12 members and six alternates approved on Friday, arguments in the case are now scheduled to begin Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court.

From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026

Mornings he alternates between Madame Manec’s kitchen, the tobacco shop, and the post office, where he waits in interminable queues to use the telephone.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The economy has alternated between adding workers and shedding them for 11 months in a row.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026

They passed air through larynges removed from deceased horses and then alternated the airflow between normal air and helium.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2026

Yamamoto threw 20 pitches to a pair of his teammates, with right-handed hitting catcher Will Smith and left-handed hitting infielder Hyeseong Kim alternated at-bats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

Schlossberg was treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York, where her cancer alternated between remission and relapse after several bone-marrow transplants and clinical trials, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

Thereafter she alternated between the former masters and the former slaves.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Their simulations showed that disruptions often travel through alternating direct and indirect pathways, moving across international trade links as well as domestic production chains.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026

Bipolar disorder is a lifelong mental health condition characterised by alternating periods of intense emotional highs and deep emotional lows.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

With the exception of Brivik’s appearance, Bird took the stage solo, alternating between performing unreleased songs from an upcoming album and much-loved stalwarts from his 2005 breakout, “The Mysterious Production of Eggs.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Cornelys relaunched the masquerade while opening it to the middling sort, alternating private parties with public nights for “any proper person” with a ticket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Her sneakers are painted, one with an impossibly small chequerboard of a thousand colors, the other with yellow happy faces alternating with black skulls.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson