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alternately

/ ɔːˈɜːɪٱɪ /

adverb

  1. in an alternating sequence or position

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Even the logo jumps out like a birthday cake topper, with the number “70” alternately blocky and rounded as if constructed out of frosting.

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They worked their way up Sunset, stopping by the properties of people they knew and making alternately jubilant and heartbreaking calls to deliver updates.

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Still, Hollywood was everywhere among Chandler’s belongings, which included several screenplays alternately owned and written by him, as well as film treatments.

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And who could forget “the Pan,” described by the author as “a repulsive and unsatisfactory arrangement that was to be alternately praised … and abhorred” by 18th-century sanitarians?

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

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