sometimes

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I don’t want to scare anyone, but bad stuff happens to people sometimes.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

Pakistan shares a 900-km border with Iran, with whom it has maintained warm -- if sometimes testy -- relations, with the countries sharing significant cultural and trade ties.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Honey sometimes represents DHS on cross-departmental conference calls with state election chiefs, an unsettling reality for those who spent years countering the false claims she made from outside the government.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

“De Gaulle’s thinking, by contrast, was permeated by a sense of the inevitable and by a melancholy, sometimes apocalyptic, belief that all human enterprises will fail sooner or later.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

She smiled in that devious way she did sometimes.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows