Definitions
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- adverb In an
alternating manner. - adverb Taking turns.
Etymologies
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Examples
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His feverish search through New York's alternatingly teaming and deserted streets takes him from Times Square to more squalid parts of the city, and ultimately to the United Nations.
Bad Girls of Film Noir David Mermelstein 2010
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One night, not that long ago, I swear my kids alternatingly woke me one the HOUR all night long.
On The Night Shift kittenpie 2008
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"It's alternatingly ravishing and awkward," writes Premiere's Glenn Kenny.
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Warp in colours white, light and dark beige, weft threads in blue and red. 17 tablets, threaded alternatingly s and z, turned in one direction only for the whole band.
Finally finished! a stitch in time 2009
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Nor would they still profess Christianity if they became alternatingly Buddhist, Sikh, or Muslim.
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Warp in colours white, light and dark beige, weft threads in blue and red. 17 tablets, threaded alternatingly s and z, turned in one direction only for the whole band.
Archive 2009-04-01 a stitch in time 2009
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Tortoise's jazz-infused electronic sound leaves an alternatingly saturnine and joyful aftertaste.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Thirty-Five 2009
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This sort of panel is alternatingly energizing and demoralizing.
FiestaCon Day #3 (& #4) paperxflowerz 2009
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Another way it is embarrassing is in its alternatingly social-climby awe and doyenne-ish superciliousness about people's expensive houses and co-ops, fretted-over renovations (which underpaid laborers do), ultra-chic gardens and pools, and humorously erudite food and furnishings taste, not to mention its unwavering yearly coverage of that Central Park event where all the women wear those flying-saucer hats.
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I think I was afraid David Copperfield would be alternatingly dismal and jolly, but the compass of tone is fully rounded, and the story is most agreeably eventful, with both plot and tone turning on a dime.
"Janet! Donkeys!" Roger Sutton 2006
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