alternately
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The men on these new shows present tortured visions of modern masculinity and the alternately hilarious and horrifying ways things can go awry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
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
He approves of credit, too, despite the human proclivity to alternately gorge and fast on loans and bonds and mortgages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
She alternately giggles and flips her hair as she guides me to the cafeteria.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
Vocabulary lists containing alternately
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