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There’s an alternate universe where Taylor Tomlinson is a young adult fantasy author holed up in a cabin miles from civilization.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

In Chuck Klosterman’s alternate history, the Beatles fade into obscurity while the Velvet Underground becomes an immediate success.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The chapters in “Wishbone” alternate between these characters, exploring the forking paths a life can take.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

"However, the evidential threshold was not met for the alternate offence," they added.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

In rapid succession he had been defeated for homeroom president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, sergeant at arms, homeroom representative to the Student Council, and homeroom alternate.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

They don’t deserve a museum that alternates between ignoring and condemning our extraordinary heritage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

That’s when we learned that Ashton, MyKayla, and Ragan would be staying at another compound, with all the other team alternates.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

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

Chileans have alternated between left and right governments at every election since 2010.

From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026

The sailor alternated between talking and heaving over the side of the raft.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Professor Alexey Kornyshev from Imperial College London and his collaborators originally suggested that salt ions surrounding DNA could produce alternating patterns of electrical charge.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 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

The FCC also added foreign-made inverters to the list -- devices that, among other functions, convert direct current from batteries or solar panels into standard alternating current, which can be used by the electrical grid.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

Chemistry is my oasis, and I’m usually the first person to arrive, but today Audrey Dorn beat me and was at her desk, alternating between staring at her phone and watching the door.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson