not infrequently

idiom

: frequently : often
an error not infrequently made by beginners

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Recent Examples on the Web Whenever a law is passed, a court decision rendered, a medical horror story surfaced — which happens not infrequently — Ziegler is invariably asked to weigh in from her perch at UC Davis. Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024 These are stories about difficult and not infrequently destructive characters who are lost in their own worlds. Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023 Earthquakes in Arizona happen not infrequently but are rarely felt due to their remote locations and mostly weak magnitudes. Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 24 July 2023 Then, beginning about half a million years ago, scientists start to see cannibalism happening not infrequently in the fossil record among our relative species, particularly Neanderthals and H. sapiens. Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for not infrequently 

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“Not infrequently.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/not%20infrequently. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.

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