alternate
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Southampton will get a Test in alternate men's home Ashes.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
He reappears in an alternate reality, a land of medieval technology where objects from his original timeline are magical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
I walk her to the door and she makes a face like we’ve just stepped into an alternate dimension and she has no idea how to react.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Interval training alternates between more vigorous periods of exercise and lower-intensity periods of active recovery.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
The rest of the album alternates between chaos and control, introspection and criticism, grungy beats and hazy surrealism.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
“Kin” deftly alternates points of view between Vernice and Annie, narrating events by way of a vernacular that would be at home on a front porch rocking chair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
The novel then alternates its focus among three characters who are connected in the aftermath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
“You skip a practice and you get bounced to the alternates, Connor. I’m in this to win.”
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
For the next four pitches, he alternated between his four-seam fastball and off-speed pitches — first his changeup and then curveball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Erika alternated between sobbing so much she couldn’t speak and sharing beloved memories about Charlie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
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
Hoping to interrogate both George Theodorakis and James Shin Hoo, they alternated their dinner orders.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
After 77 years of intervals of tolerance alternating with intervals of repression, official statistics acknowledge 44 million registered Christians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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
All painted pastel, alternating between blue, pink, green, and yellow.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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