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View definitions for alternately

alternately

adverb as in by turns

adverb as in sporadically

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Early returns in downballot contests also reflect where Orange County stands politically, swaying alternately between red and blue.

Alternately, a victory for the government in the courts could leave a major employer out of pocket.

From BBC

Oliver is an addict, alternately abusing alcohol, MDMA, cocaine and prescription pills.

It’s an alternately tender and forbidding set of electronic rock jams slathered with digital effects and suffused with thoughts of collapse both personal and political.

Thomas then pivoted to minimizing the prosecutors’ misconduct, alternately dismissing the notes as inscrutable and crediting Smothermon’s “explanation” of their irrelevance.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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