alternate
Add the flour alternately with the pumpkin puree, folding it in gently.
He was being alternately charming and annoying all afternoon.
The ice on the road alternately freezes and melts as temperatures get colder at night and warmer during the day.

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alternately | American Dictionary

alternately
adverb
us/ˈɔl·tər·nət·li/
in a manner in which two things each replace the other:
The movie is alternately depressing and amusing.

Examples of alternately

alternately
The two players alternately take new edges, one edge per move.
Alternately, the stress of a dissatisfying relationship may increase her tolerance of disruptive behavior as a way of avoiding struggles with her child.
The structures on either side of the centreline may be arranged alternately or directly opposite each other, or in any intermediate arrangement.
Small pinnules are alternately arranged along the rachis, attached at c. 45°.
Alternately, the production terms can be assumed to be of the order of the indirect dissipation terms.
These spectra contain step heating data from multiple aliquots, plotted side-by-side and alternately shaded.
The first plate does not have any holes, but the remaining 11 have alternately nine and eight holes in each.
Western powers too played a less than glorious part in this twentieth-century drama, where imperial and ethnic nation-state projects have alternately tormented the region's society.
The parasites appeared alternately rounded, piriform and of irregular form.
As a matter of public policy, a delicate balance was sought between security and liability as these alternately freed and constrained behavior.
Alternately, it may be that other psychosocial variables become more salient as the children transition through adolescence.
All seven employees worked either exclusively on the first floor (n l 3) or alternately on both floors (n l 4).
These stages are not necessarily sequential as rules from different stages may be applied alternately.
Alternately, the localization function view holds that each region of the brain has a specialized function.
It appears now that the perturbation technique results in decoupling the fluid and membrane problems, which are solved alternately.
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