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Whether to be mad at Grant Hill for excusing a healthy-enough Kawhi or proud of the Clippers for pulling him back for safekeeping or, alternately, mad at the team for pulling him back for safekeeping…
And most of all: Was Kawhi hurt or healthy?
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Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 26 Sep. 2024
His turbulent relationship with Hastings, meanwhile, is essayed via various alternately heated and teasing conversations about his potential legacy, the destruction in creation or vice versa, and the tension between their roles as artist and journalist.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Sep. 2024
Rubio’s songs of love and loss are set to lush, layered arrangements, or alternately, to acoustic guitars, piano and keyboards, his vocals alternating between singing and chanting.
—Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2024
What stays the same, year after year, though: The tennis tribe (or, alternately, the Honey Deuce tribe) gathering together to celebrate the greatest game on Earth in the greatest city in the world.
—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2024
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Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 26 Sep. 2024
His turbulent relationship with Hastings, meanwhile, is essayed via various alternately heated and teasing conversations about his potential legacy, the destruction in creation or vice versa, and the tension between their roles as artist and journalist.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Sep. 2024
Rubio’s songs of love and loss are set to lush, layered arrangements, or alternately, to acoustic guitars, piano and keyboards, his vocals alternating between singing and chanting.
—Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2024
What stays the same, year after year, though: The tennis tribe (or, alternately, the Honey Deuce tribe) gathering together to celebrate the greatest game on Earth in the greatest city in the world.
—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2024
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“Alternately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alternately. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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