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View definitions for alternately

alternately

adverb as in by turns

adverb as in sporadically

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McVay alternately described it as “a strange game” and “a weird day.”

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

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.

They alternately layered scoops of one ingredient or a sprinkle of another onto pieces of pink paper laid out on the counter top.

The 36-year-old college professor said as much after she was eliminated from the Paris Games’ breaking competition that left viewers alternately befuddled, delighted and enraged due to its confident awkwardness.

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

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