The coverage will alternate between leagues each year and gives Turner the most postseason games on a network.
Turner Sports expands its deal with Major League Baseball through 2028|radmarya|September 24, 2020|Fortune
DNA and RNA strands are composed of alternating phosphate and sugar molecules, but sugars “are profoundly unstable in hot spring environments,” says David Des Marais, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
Life on Earth may have begun in hostile hot springs|Jack J. Lee|September 24, 2020|Science News
When Epic started offering alternate Fortnite payment methods that avoided Apple’s fee-taking, for instance, Apple blocked the app.
Why Apple let WordPress walk but continues to fight Fortnite’s Epic Games|rhhackettfortune|August 25, 2020|Fortune
In one macabre scene, one of Edison’s employees goes so far as to publicly electrocute a dog with alternating current.
Ethan Hawke stars in ‘Tesla,’ a quirky biopic about the iconic inventor|Maria Temming|August 19, 2020|Science News
So that means in an alternate universe without any southpaw advantage, about 36 percent of current LHPs would be good enough to pitch in the major leagues.
What Really Gives Left-Handed Pitchers Their Edge?|Guy Molyneux|August 17, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
In the absence of typical classrooms and curriculums, West Africans have opted for alternate methods of learning and education.
The Radio Battle to Educate Ebola’s Kids|Abby Haglage|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then at least the American public would have been getting an alternate theory of the case about Keystone.
For Obama, Hell Week Has Arrived|Michael Tomasky|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Underneath, a miniature version of the bug-crazy man is revealed, himself thwacking away in an alternate dimension.
‘Interstellar’ Is Wildly Ambitious, Very Flawed, and Absolutely Worth Seeing|Marlow Stern|November 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The other two are da—meaning father—and te—an alternate spelling of ti.
Well, La Ti Da: Stephin Merritt’s Winning Little Words of Scrabble|David Bukszpan|October 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Other new admissions to the dictionary include qayaq—an alternate spelling of kayak—and thongy.
Well, La Ti Da: Stephin Merritt’s Winning Little Words of Scrabble|David Bukszpan|October 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is by the alternate movement of these mandibles that the caterpillars devour the leaves with so much greediness and ease.
The Insect World|Louis Figuier
Alternate and antagonistic bargaining went on thus for more than two months.
A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times|Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
During the alternate periods of elevation and of stationary level the record will be blank.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection|Charles Darwin
He wondered if it were still the same excitement that sent the alternate flush and pallor up her cheek.
Then alternate between the players, in the same manner, until you have played out the game.
Practical Mind-Reading|William Walker Atkinson
British Dictionary definitions for alternate
alternate
verb (ˈɔːltəˌneɪt)
(often foll by with)to occur or cause to occur successively or by turnsday and night alternate
(intr often foll by between) to swing repeatedly from one condition, action, etc, to anotherhe alternates between success and failure
(tr)to interchange regularly or in succession
(intr)(of an electric current, voltage, etc) to reverse direction or sign at regular intervals, usually sinusoidally, the instantaneous value varying continuously
(intr often foll by for) theatreto understudy another actor or actress
adjective (ɔːlˈtɜːnɪt)
occurring by turnsalternate feelings of love and hate
every other or second one of a serieshe came to work on alternate days
being a second or further choice; alternativealternate director
botany
(of leaves, flowers, etc) arranged singly at different heights on either side of the stem
(of parts of a flower) arranged opposite the spaces between other partsCompare opposite (def. 4)
noun (ˈɔːltənɪt, ɔːlˈtɜːnɪt)
US and Canadiana person who substitutes for another in his absence; stand-in
Word Origin for alternate
C16: from Latin alternāre to do one thing and then another, from alternus one after the other, from alter other
“Alternate” vs. “Alternative”: Are They Synonyms?Can you switch between "alternate" and "alternative," or would that only be correct in an alternate universe? Read about all the alternatives here.