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What does alternately mean?

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Adverb
  1. In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
  2. (mathematics) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.
  3. (proscribed) alternatively
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Gone are the days of planting just wheat every other year, alternately leaving soil fallow to perhaps store precious water.
The play is written in verse which varies between alternately rhyming quatrains and stanzaic form, the effect being lyric rather than dramatic.
I like comedy and I like bleak, but the mixture is like someone alternately shoveling ice cream and steak into my mouth.
It began hopping in my direction, both pairs of wings alternately moving up and down.
The external treatment of the house reveals a layering with metal and concrete panels alternately veiling and revealing inner glass boxes.
Their roles gradually reverse, and the family members alternately turn to and on each other.

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