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alternate

[awl-ter-nayt, al-, awl-ter-nit, al-] / ˈɔl tərˌneɪt, ˈæl-, ˈɔl tər nɪt, ˈæl- /
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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

This runoff for a vacant seat on the bench features a longtime public defender running against a veteran alternate public defender.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

“The thing is, I only have the one Chinese dress, so it would be nice to have an alternate outfit.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

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

The rest of the album alternates between chaos and control, introspection and criticism, grungy beats and hazy surrealism.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

“There’s ten of us plus two alternates in case somebody gets sick at the last minute.”

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

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

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

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

It was early December, and patches of ice alternated with drifts of brown leaves.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

"Our system generates a supercurrent that varies over time like an alternating current but without voltage. It's the very evolution of the qubit's state that produces that oscillation," says Egues.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

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

Roberts also said alternating between right- and left-handers was not a variable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Leading an orchestra of 22, featuring lively colorations from saxophone, harp, marimba and guitar, conductor Michael Sakir captured the music’s landscape of alternating pulse and elegy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

His body fevered and froze in alternating currents of temperature.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy


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