alternate
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“Do not attempt to cross flooded roads. Find an alternate route.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
"Of course we'll miss it but it was absolutely the right call and we've got a beautiful alternate version that we're very proud of."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
That’s the premise of Chuck Klosterman’s “Rock*,” an alternate history of popular music from 1967 to well into this century, built on a single historical accident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
But assume we can learn nothing about other people’s interiority by their faces and we end up living in our own alternate form of prosopagnosia, unable to meaningfully recognize another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Had she understood what the alternate world was like?
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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The disease often alternates between periods when symptoms are controlled and sudden flare-ups that can become severe enough to require hospital care.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
They don’t deserve a museum that alternates between ignoring and condemning our extraordinary heritage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
“Okay. Will do. I shall read the alternates first. Two fifth graders. Two from sixth grade. Amanda Firestone. Molly North. Elena Rodriguez. Rodney Mosul.”
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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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
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
Chileans have alternated between left and right governments at every election since 2010.
From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026
Sharon Ito, the daughter of the Japanese sharecropper for whom we picked strawberries during the summer, and I alternated taking the first seat, although she sat in it more often than I did.
From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez
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Roberts also said alternating between right- and left-handers was not a variable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
Professor Alexey Kornyshev from Imperial College London and his collaborators originally suggested that salt ions surrounding DNA could produce alternating patterns of electrical charge.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
His blustering threats, alternating with claims of imminent peace and victory, are doubted by friends and foe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The FCC also added foreign-made inverters to the list -- devices that, among other functions, convert direct current from batteries or solar panels into standard alternating current, which can be used by the electrical grid.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Anya directed them to put the branches next to the sukkah, and then they lifted her up so she could put each branch on, laying them alternating back and forth.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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