not infrequently

idiom

: frequently : often
an error not infrequently made by beginners

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As Zwick points out, awards season is defined by endless speeches about the years and decades that not infrequently precede the making of a film. John Tamny, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 But Turtle Bay is no longer particularly desirable, nor are the exceptionally large, often outdated apartments in the building, which not infrequently have warrens of maids’ rooms and stodgy last-century décor (5,000-square-foot-plus five-bedrooms can be had for as little as $5.25 million). Kim Velsey, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2025 How things have changed: My interlocutor was one member of a large and diverse constituency of urban sophisticates who espouse comparable positions, not infrequently in the same gratingly defiant terms. Ian Volner, Artforum, 28 May 2025 But pop parenting philosophies can be unhelpful, especially because parents not infrequently misinterpret them. Gail Cornwall, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2025 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 11 Sep. 2025.

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