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But we are finding alternate capacities and alternate routes for cargo outside Dubai.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Do not attempt to cross flooded roads. Find an alternate route.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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
Ms. Bound-Alberti provides alternate models of how we might recognize a person beyond what we see when we look at their face.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The doorway to the panic room/secret passageway/tunnel to the alternate world opened up, and Emma reached in to turn on the light.
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
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
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
He alternates between sitting on my lap to listen and running around with a few other kids.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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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
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
Chileans have alternated between left and right governments at every election since 2010.
From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026
And the outbursts of an abject self-pity with which it alternated.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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Under ultraviolet light, some scales in the caudal region show alternating light and dark bands running across the tail.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Government responses have included daily individual caps on fuel purchases, a ban on stockpiling and an alternating licence-plate scheme intended to reduce the number of cars filling up.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
The akrafena’s inscriptions turn from a bright white to alternating colors.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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