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"We've been looking into solar panels but there's very little support out there for people who might want to look at alternate ways for running their household."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
But building alternate routes to give the region’s energy-export system more resilience will take billions of dollars, and the pipelines meant to bypass the strait and its vulnerability could themselves become targets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
In an alternate universe, the Sparks’ win over Chicago on Friday could have been a barometer to indicate whether general manager Raegan Pebley’s gamble to trade Rickea Jackson to the Sky paid off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
By dramatically reducing these losses, this alternate strategy significantly outperformed the traditional approach both in terms of raw, unadjusted performance as well as risk-adjusted performance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
A couple of times, the drivers came back to the church saying that they were cut off and there was no alternate route to the site.”
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
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Instead, many scientists have argued that the brain simply alternates attention between tasks so quickly that it creates the illusion of doing both at once.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
The rest of the album alternates between chaos and control, introspection and criticism, grungy beats and hazy surrealism.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
It alternates between "found footage" segments filmed in first person that resemble his web show, and more classic filmic shots.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
The novel then alternates its focus among three characters who are connected in the aftermath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
We are alive against the stupendous odds of genetics, infinitely outnumbered by all the alternates who might, except for luck, be in our places.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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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
In one experiment, Adrian North and his colleagues at Leicester University alternated the music in a supermarket between French accordion and German oompah tunes.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
This is alternated with little smacking sounds, followed by a long period of tossing and turning and rearranging the pillows.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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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
In its first 250 years, the U.S. has seen periods of shared prosperity alternating with eras like the Gilded Age, in which income inequality spiked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Chemistry is my oasis, and I’m usually the first person to arrive, but today Audrey Dorn beat me and was at her desk, alternating between staring at her phone and watching the door.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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