ad hoc
Example Sentences
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England used a specialist fielding coach during the white-ball tour of Sri Lanka and T20 World Cup, though Key confirmed additions to the backroom staff would continue on an ad hoc basis.
From BBC
The National Bureau of Economic Research said an ad hoc committee reviewed Summers’s conduct and recommended the termination of his appointment as a research associate with the organization.
He has been on court regularly this week and, even though the arrangement with Raducanu is on a day-to-day basis, it is possible that Petchey could resume the ad hoc role he had last spring.
From BBC
Qatar has halted all flying indefinitely, while the two main Emirati airlines have been operating only a handful of ad hoc flights, while keeping their regularly scheduled flights grounded.
“We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner,” he said in a blog post.
From Los Angeles Times
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