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• v  go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
• v  exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
• v  be an understudy or alternate for a role
• v  reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
• v  do something in turns
• a  (of a current) reversing direction
  alternating current
• s  occurring by turns; first one and then the other
  alternating feelings of love and hate

• A meal lasts for hours, alternating between sweet and savory, hot and cold, familiar and otherworldly: fried rabbit ears, for instance, translucently thin and tasting like pork .
• Inside is a layer of phosphor that when hit with an alternating current, shines bright white (not bluish like other electroluminescent light).
• Leone's magnificent style is all contrasts (huge panoramic shots alternating with tight close-ups, very slow build-ups to lightning-fast action).

• alternate
• jump
• understudy
• interchange
• tack
• switch
• flip
• flip-flop
• take turns

• direct

News & Articles

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• A recipe for jam
  Mix together a string of late-winter days with temperatures alternating a few degrees either side of the freezing point, add an unusually generous early March rain, then follow it up with a quick, sharp cold snap accompanied by wild northwest winds. The result is an extensive ice jam March 12 on the Big Sioux River along Highway 11 north of Corson, S.D., an eye-catching scene from this year’s ...
  June 23, 2013 - Tri-State Neighbor
• Mississippi State prepares for College World Series finals
  The Mississippi State University Bulldogs are in practice mode as they prepare for the College World Series finals in Omaha, Neb. The best-of-three College World Series championship series will have the Bulldogs facing the University of California-Los Angeles. Both teams will hold a news conference at TD Ameritrade Park before alternating practice on the field. WAPT-TV Sports Director Aslan ...
  June 23, 2013 - WAPT Jackson
• Lunch & Learn Wednesday at Falls Senior Center
  Falls Active Adults CenterThe Falls Active Adult Center sponsored by the Area Agency on Aging for LuzerneWyoming counties invites anyone 55 to the following activitesMondays 10 a.m. to 1130 a.m. Wii bowling competition with Tunkhannock Center,alternating sites.
  June 22, 2013 - Times Leader

Quotes

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• Scott Greenstein in SI.com
  By layering the driver chatter over the race broadcast and alternating between the two, we'll provide a way to follow the race like never before,said Scott Greenstein, president of Entertainment and Sports.
• Todd Gitlin in Guardian Unlimited
  But even if the issue is not a problem for Clinton, Gitlin said: "Is it a problem in some large sense that we seem to be alternating dynasties? Yes, I think democracy should be more expansive."
• Paul Otellini in New York Times
  Our tick-tock strategy of alternating next generation silicon technology and a new microprocessor architecture - year after year - is accelerating the pace of innovation in the industry,Mr. Otellini said.