Thesaurus / occasionally
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The young woman receiving Clarkson’s texts is a state employee whose job requires her to occasionally interact with the attorney general.
ALASKA’S ATTORNEY GENERAL ON UNPAID LEAVE AFTER SENDING HUNDREDS OF “UNCOMFORTABLE” TEXTS TO A YOUNG COLLEAGUEBY KYLE HOPKINS, ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWSAUGUST 25, 2020PROPUBLICAThey have occasionally shown a willingness to swing the ball side-to-side and get Embiid good position on duck-ins, but that willingness tends not to last, and before long they are back straining to make entry passes on stagnant post-ups.
WHEN JOEL EMBIID POSTS UP, THE CELTICS ARE READYJARED DUBINAUGUST 21, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThough their defensive experiments might occasionally end in losses, they exemplify what has made this year’s squad a serious threat to get back to the NBA Finals even after losing arguably the best player in the league in Kawhi Leonard.
THE RAPTORS’ DEFENSE IS ALMOST NEVER THE SAME, BUT IT’S ALWAYS REALLY GOODJARED DUBINAUGUST 17, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTSmall, sharpened stones were also found among grass and ash remains, suggesting that people occasionally sat on cave bedding while making stone tools.
THE OLDEST KNOWN GRASS BEDS FROM 200,000 YEARS AGO INCLUDED INSECT REPELLENTSBRUCE BOWERAUGUST 13, 2020SCIENCE NEWSWhen Sims and Humphries analyzed Berni’s results in 2015, they found that normal larvae placed on an expanse of agar containing no food occasionally moved in a way that approximated a Lévy walk.
RANDOM SEARCH WIRED INTO ANIMALS MAY HELP THEM HUNTLIAM DREWJUNE 11, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINELab meetings are opportunities for scientists to come together and share their latest data and then brainstorm next steps for the project, and occasionally we also discuss a recent, sometimes controversial, journal article.
HOW TO MAKE MEETINGS LESS TERRIBLE (EP. 389 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERMAY 28, 2020FREAKONOMICSWe’re all living in our own little world — occasionally colliding over a cataclysm, a piece of truly bad news like this global pandemic.
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL (EP. 417)STEPHEN J. DUBNERMAY 7, 2020FREAKONOMICSLab meetings are opportunities for scientists to come together and share their latest data and then brainstorm next steps for the project, and occasionally we also discuss a recent sometimes controversial journal article.
HOW TO MAKE MEETINGS LESS TERRIBLE (EP. 389)STEPHEN J. DUBNERSEPTEMBER 19, 2019FREAKONOMICSHe conducts this ceremony with the greatest solemnity, occasionally pronouncing these incantatory words, "Plate or shell, sah?"
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE OPERAJOHN H. SWABY (AKA "SCRICI")Occasionally this artist has painted genre subjects, but her real success has not been in this direction.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENTWORDS RELATED TO OCCASIONALLY
- any which way
- anyhow
- at intervals
- by fits and starts
- by turns
- disconnectedly
- eccentrically
- erratically
- fitfully
- haphazardly
- helter-skelter
- in snatches
- infrequently
- jerkily
- now and again
- occasionally
- off and on
- out of sequence
- periodically
- slapdash
- spasmodically
- sporadically
- uncertainly
- uncommonly
- unevenly
- unmethodically
- unpunctually
- willy-nilly
- at intervals
- at times
- every now and then
- every once in a while
- every so often
- from time to time
- hardly
- infrequently
- intermittently
- irregularly
- not often
- now and again
- occasionally
- off and on
- on occasion
- once and again
- once in a blue moon
- once in a while
- once or twice
- periodically
- sometimes
- sporadically
- as a rule
- as is the custom
- as is usual
- as usual
- by and large
- commonly
- consistently
- customarily
- frequently
- generally
- habitually
- in the main
- mainly
- more often than not
- most often
- mostly
- naturally
- normally
- now and again
- now and then
- occasionally
- often
- on the whole
- once and again
- ordinarily
- per usual
- regularly
- sometimes
- typically
- a few times
- every now and then
- from time to time
- hardly
- hardly ever
- in a few cases
- inhabitually
- irregularly
- little
- not often
- not very often
- occasionally
- on and off
- once in a blue moon
- once in a while
- rarely
- scarcely
- scarcely ever
- semioccasionally
- sometimes
- sporadically
- uncommonly
- unoften
- unusually
- whimsically
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