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What is the adverb for alternatively?

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alternately
  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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  5. Examples:
    1. “The ship's machine shop was occupied alternately by everyone airbrushing the paint onto their armor for the next six hours.”
      “A few lights shone on a figure alternately twiddling knobs on various mixers and tapping keys on his computer or midi keyboards.”
      “The play is written in verse which varies between alternately rhyming quatrains and stanzaic form, the effect being lyric rather than dramatic.”
alternatively
  1. in an alternative way
  2. (conjunctive) Used to link a pair of possibilities
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Get real, I say, and properly punish these people or alternatively disqualify them from driving if they can't pay.”
      “But we could alternatively send wind-turbine electricity through the grid and manufacture hydrogen locally.”
      “The Parliament may, alternatively, within three months propose amendments by an absolute majority of its component members.”
alternatingly
  1. In an alternating manner; taking turns.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The dialogue alternatingly sparkles or darkens as various nooses, comic or otherwise, steadily tighten.”
      “Controversial because of its alternatingly irreverent and confrontational tone, the film was nonetheless lauded by many critics for its sui generis examination of racial and class inequality, gang culture, and sexuality.”
      “As alternatingly illuminating and awkward as the usual cocktail-party chatter between intelligent people, the conversation wended back to the inevitability that all stylistic choices will be cringed at later.”
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