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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
Because I’m shaking off the alternate world, and that’s worse than the tunnel?
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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It also confirmed the party’s expulsion of 33 officials who were Central Committee members or alternates, including former senior diplomat Liu Jianchao.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
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
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
Besides a few more small businesses, the landscape alternates between grassy fields turning brown in the summer heat and oil-stained streets that must lead to neighborhoods with houses.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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With Kessler sidelined, the Lakers have alternated Kevon Looney and Sandro Mamukelashvili at center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
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
In public, he has alternated military threats with the offer of fresh negotiations.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
If they had to use the bathroom multiple times in one place, they alternated.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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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
Developed in parallel by several studios, "Call of Duty" has been split into two series for more than 15 years, with new titles released in alternating years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Roberts also said alternating between right- and left-handers was not a variable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
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
Take turns around the circle alternating the rhyme with two new “mothers” in the center battling it out through rhythm, movement, and improvisation.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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