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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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Having chosen to ride on his considerable reputation, the curator has assembled a show that feels alternately meandering and hasty.
The gruff and blustery painter was alternately rejected and embraced by critics and the art public over his subject matter and style.
The ship's machine shop was occupied alternately by everyone airbrushing the paint onto their armor for the next six hours.
Their roles gradually reverse, and the family members alternately turn to and on each other.
They are glazed in greenish-black and pale brown, the colors laid alternately to form a simple checkerboard.
Gone are the days of planting just wheat every other year, alternately leaving soil fallow to perhaps store precious water.

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