alternately
In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
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Alternately, he could use the money for the Presidential Library now that the foundation holding it has been dissolved.
(Alternately: our arguments over water were *so much better* everyone decided that any discussion of water is really about AI.)
Maybe true, but our regime is just as vicious. And this war was started bc Trump’s balls are alternately squeezed by Putin and Bibi.
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In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
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(mathematics) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.
“Alternately, he could use the money for the Presidential Library now that the foundation holding it has been dissolved.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“(Alternately: our arguments over water were *so much better* everyone decided that any discussion of water is really about AI.)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Maybe true, but our regime is just as vicious. And this war was started bc Trump’s balls are alternately squeezed by Putin and Bibi.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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