as often as not

idiom

: very often
She arrived home from work late, as often as not.

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Resurrection, as often as not, means restoration, and one of the festival’s many missions is to showcase, and to explore, the painstaking ways in which wounded films can be healed. Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025 Their assessments, as often as not, turned out to be wrong. Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2025 To a certain extent, professional sports have always been a vehicle for selling product, but now the product, as often as not, is oneself. Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025 For the better part of two centuries, the Easy Chair—the oldest column in American journalism—has as often as not been a source of grief for its occupants. Christopher Carroll, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for as often as not

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“As often as not.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20often%20as%20not. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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