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Hyrox sees participants alternate between running a kilometre and doing fitness exercises, including a sled push, burpee jumps, indoor rowing, and lunges while carrying a sandbag.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Rather than spinning their entire bodies together, the snakes alternate between rolling on one side and swinging a curved section of their bodies downward beside their heads.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
The "Modern Warfare" games depict military conflicts in the modern era, inspired by international tensions, while the "Black Ops" games take place in an alternate reality where the Cold War never ended.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
On Tuesday, he said his approaches can alternate between “focusing on reducing the symptoms and getting rid of the pain and/or just making sure that I’m moving well in the swing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Everyone begins taking turns going up, two at a time, each behind alternate sides of the screen, singing a song in Japanese and clapping while everyone in the audience sings along with them.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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Mr. De los Santos’s dense text, which alternates between Spanish and English, is constructed to convey a lot of information, which often leaves Mr. Sosa’s pleasantly tonal score in a subordinate position.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
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
That’s when we learned that Ashton, MyKayla, and Ragan would be staying at another compound, with all the other team alternates.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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These changes provided a way to define the system's progression through time, even when the bright region alternated between expansion and contraction.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
His mother, Mollie Roy, alternated Tylenol and Motrin as pediatricians typically recommend and looked after him as he rested at home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Grieving relatives alternated between watching intently and closing their eyes, overwhelmed by the grim exercise.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Meanwhile, his shower alternated between freezing cold and "scalding hot".
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The sailor alternated between talking and heaving over the side of the raft.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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A year later, the two knights took their talents to Broadway, alternating performances of Waiting for Godot with Harold Pinter's No Man's Land.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
They successfully demonstrated optical switching in a substantially thicker magnetic structure containing nine alternating layers of platinum and cobalt.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Li tells their stories in alternating chapters, loosely grounding her narrative in historical fact and Li’s own expansive imaginative powers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The medical staff recommended breathwork and stretching sessions, along with contrast therapy, alternating between freezing-cold temperatures and heat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Aunty Ifeoma drove through a roundabout planted with pink periwinkle flowers and lined with bricks painted alternating black and white.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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