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Not to mention that the elevators installed since 1990, beset by age, weather, vandalism, pee, and the general relentlessness of the New York City environment, seemed to break down as often as not.
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Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
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
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Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
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
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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 28 Feb. 2026.
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