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oft

adverb as in repeatedly

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The executive order he issued was a down payment on his oft-stated goal of making health care affordable and accessible to more Americans.

The sharp landscape of the Purcells is shot through with avalanche paths where this oft-formidable snowpack frequently releases itself and thunders down the mountain, destroying everything in its path.

From Time

It’s an oft-cited statistic that 96 percent of American schoolchildren can identify Ronald McDonald.

From Eater

An oft-cited example of the trend is Shopify, the Canadian company that helps shops create online stores that have gone bonkers amid the pandemic.

From Fortune

San Diego’s oft-delayed Pure Water project – a bid to create a third of the city’s water from recycled sewage – scored a victory in court Friday that could get the $5 billion project back on track.

If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.

The evolution of style is oft studied but rarely understood in any comprehensive manner.

First, the amazing and oft-commented upon speed at which public opinion has flipped.

The conforms of systemic racism have caused a precious grasping of your blackness that oft times seeks to destroy us.

Despite the oft-repeated phrase “all publicity is good publicity,” most people with common sense know this is not true.

The Swiss soon found out that in Hephzibah he was dealing with a truthful girl; for the tale, though oft repeated, never varied.

Full oft, indeed,They gold and silver will despise, bills ofExchange preferring.

Many a time and oft had she pleaded, with tears, to the remorseless girl who looked so soft and yielding.

"Surely there can be no harm or danger," thought Bessie; but she remembered the oft-repeated warnings of her parents and aunt.

As Bill looked over his oft-appraised stock, it seemed to have lost much of its one-time charm.

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On this page you'll find 101 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to oft, such as: again and again, generally, intermittently, many times, often, and periodically.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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