Usually means: Alternately; at different times sequentially.
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  1. by turns: Merriam-Webster
  2. by turns: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. by turns: Collins English Dictionary
  4. by turns: Wordnik
  5. by turns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. by turns: Wiktionary
  7. By turns, by turns: Dictionary.com
  8. by turns: FreeDictionary.org
  9. By turns: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. by turns: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (by turns)

▸ adverb:  One after the other; successively; alternating.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) At intervals; from time to time.

Similar:
alternatingly, successively, succeedingly, about, one after another, back to back, successantly, consecutively, one by one, serially, more...

Opposite:
simultaneously, concurrently, together

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Similar:
alternatingly, successively, succeedingly, about, one after another, back to back, successantly, consecutively, one by one, serially, more...

Opposite:
simultaneously, concurrently, together



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