alternately
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Flippases such as MurJ move molecules by alternately exposing them to each side of the membrane without forming a permanent opening.
From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026
The way “asses.masses” shifted tones and tenor recalled a game such as “Kentucky Route Zero,” another serialized and alternately realistic and fanciful game with political overtones.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
Those “you’s” are alternately or simultaneously specific and universal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
None of that means, mind you, that this alternately idiotic and delusional document — described in that Economist editorial, using an enjoyable Anglo-idiom, as “a dog’s breakfast” — is not dangerous.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025
It took me a while to get to sleep and when I did, Mom and Dad and Miss Riley and Mr. Caton and Calvin Suggs alternately intruded into my dreams.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
Vocabulary lists containing alternately
Shake It Up: Alter
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