alternation
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Wagner wrote his own text; largely dissolved the conventional alternation of recitative, aria and ensemble into continuous musical drama; and demanded acting and stagecraft of equal intensity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The alternation between fly-halves continues with Zoe Harrison coming back in to start in place of Holly Aitchison.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
The variety of locations, the alternation of tone and predicaments as the series skips between threads, keeps it from becoming too emotionally, too existentially wearing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
Also, recordings of a kind of electrical dialog between fish featured highly-precise turn-taking in which the fish emitted their electrical discharges in strict alternation.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
Because of the length of the lunar day and night Kepler described “the great intemperateness of climate and the most violent alternation of extreme heat and cold on the Moon,” which is entirely correct.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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