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

A rare alternate poster for the 1999 film “Cradle Will Rock,” which I wrote and directed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

If you don’t find one alternate reality funny, there’ll be another one along soon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

The world has shattered, and all that’s left is this alternate universe full of broken people with nothing to hold on to.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

In the broadcast booth, he sometimes alternates between standing and sitting, or puts his feet up on a table, anything to avoid sitting for hours on end.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Interval training alternates between more vigorous periods of exercise and lower-intensity periods of active recovery.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 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 film alternates between chronicling the progress of Jacobs’ Spring 2024 show and diving deeper into his vast references and his relationship with Coppola.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026

Egyptian art alternates between conservatism and innovation, but is never static.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

The economy has alternated between adding jobs and losing jobs for 10 months in a row, and the on-and-off streak is likely to extend into March.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 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

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

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

“We alternated between deploying and pulling back workers, because we were afraid of another hydrogen explosion,” Takeyuki Inagaki remembered.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

The new live album spends most of the program alternating between the two poles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

He attempted to free the car by alternating between forward and reverse, repeatedly revving his engine as his tires spun in the surrounding grass and brush.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

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

To transform the medium-voltage alternating current that the grid serves to most end users into higher-voltage direct current, Nvidia suggests companies use solid-state transformers instead of the old kind.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

The alternating pattern of light and dark suggests sunlight falling through the leaves in the woods.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins