alternate

Incidents of great kindness alternate with base acts of greed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

There’s an alternate universe where Taylor Tomlinson is a young adult fantasy author holed up in a cabin miles from civilization.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

On Saturday Transport Scotland posted on X on that Google Maps was falsely reporting the A9 as closed and was recommending an "inconvenient alternate route" when it remained open.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

In Chuck Klosterman’s alternate history, the Beatles fade into obscurity while the Velvet Underground becomes an immediate success.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

There wasn't an alternate suit for Valentina Tereshkova, but luckily she had no problems with her suit as she climbed into Vostok 6.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

They don’t deserve a museum that alternates between ignoring and condemning our extraordinary heritage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

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

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

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

Matheus Cunha: Began through the middle again and alternated with Fernandes as the furthest player forward.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Grieving relatives alternated between watching intently and closing their eyes, overwhelmed by the grim exercise.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

During this moment, electronic bonds between neighboring sites alternated between stronger and weaker in a repeating pattern.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

He alternated between doing the crawl, which was fastest, and the breaststroke, which was slower but allowed him to see where he was going and to see what else was floating toward him.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

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

Petrified, she recruited two charismatic friends as alternating sidekicks: daycare owner and activist Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and civil rights attorney Florynce Kennedy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The Urdd Eisteddfod takes place every year alternating between north and south Wales, attracting about 15,000 competitors aged eight to 25 and 100,000 visitors.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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

His body fevered and froze in alternating currents of temperature.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy