occasional

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Our critic said that most of the show “is devoted to works made between 1951 and 1966, offering a compendium of wide-ranging approaches and occasional surprises.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

He’s a contractor/carpenter and has money in a high-interest savings account from occasional cash-paying jobs, but he’s never put together any retirement strategy, so he has no investments.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

Both locations served as a particular kind of refuge, places where I came to new understandings and occasional epiphanies.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Also keep an eye on the website of the National Garden Scheme, a charity that posts occasional open-house dates for some 3,300 private gardens across the U.K., including many in West Dorset.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Tara remarks that they seem to have more productive post-dinner meetings when he is there, though he offers only occasional suggestions as to how the circus itself should be regulated.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern