alternate
verb (used without object)
to interchange repeatedly and regularly with one another in time or place; rotate (usually followed bywith ).
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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The historical development of a species can hardly ever have taken place in a continuously uniform flow; periods of rest will have alternated with periods of rapid progress.
From Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Fritz Muller