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choppily

ADVERB
unevenly
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With so much chronological haphazardness, the handsomely produced if choppily edited “Freud’s Last Session” becomes trapped in a no-patient’s-land, neither effectively enlarged nor satisfyingly intimate.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2023

Markets reacted choppily to a much-watched speech from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell overnight, although most investors leaned further into bets that the Fed will extend its rate pause in November.

From Reuters Oct. 20, 2023

The result is a film that’s engaging enough, but choppily paced and oddly inert.

From Washington Post Oct. 25, 2022

She ended up teaching three classes with a document camera — designed to capture papers and static objects — pointed at her face instead, choppily recording her movements.

From Seattle Times Sep. 12, 2020

Night morphed into day as José wallowed choppily though his routines and changed clothes every ten seconds; it was like one of those arty found-footage montage movies.

From Nature Mar. 13, 2018




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