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every other
person or thing every second or alternate person or thing. The magician turned every other card over. Every other table had an ashtray on it.
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every other
happening or existing regularly on every second one of the things you are counting Our discussion group meets every other Friday at eight o'clock. Every other shelf on the bookcase was full of books.
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every other something
omitting the next but including the one after that, as a series or repetition of something Our discussion group meets every other Friday at eight o'clock. It seems like every other shop in the village is a cafe.
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By that I mean, every magician must work hand-in-hand with every other magician toward building a greater and greater profession of magic.
Not every other sentence, of course, the article must make sense.
As counselors visit with students each week or every other week, they can conduct classroom guidance lessons that involve each and every student in the classroom in some specialized way.
 
 
 
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