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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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They are glazed in greenish-black and pale brown, the colors laid alternately to form a simple checkerboard.
Wanting the approval and affection of her teacher, she is baffled by his alternately affectionate and rebarbative behaviour.
The external treatment of the house reveals a layering with metal and concrete panels alternately veiling and revealing inner glass boxes.
I like comedy and I like bleak, but the mixture is like someone alternately shoveling ice cream and steak into my mouth.
The gruff and blustery painter was alternately rejected and embraced by critics and the art public over his subject matter and style.
It began hopping in my direction, both pairs of wings alternately moving up and down.

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