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Oft, those boos at Tannadice were quite something.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024

As the man said: "Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits."

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2013

Oft repeated over time, the aphorism has helped impart legitimacy to the rough and tumble of state lawmaking.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2011

Oft mentioned by astronauts, in answering insightful questions from folks like you, the smell of space is somewhat hard to describe.

From Newsweek

Oft doth reason, enthroned in the pillowed seraglio of the brain, hang back; whereas the flesh, which must walk abroad in the streets, finds its own temerity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson