once or twice

idiom

: one or two times : a very few times
We've eaten at that restaurant once or twice.

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Give 'em a good soaking about once or twice a week until after the leaves drop. Steve Bender, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025 But a comet bright enough to be readily visible to the unaided eye comes along usually only once or twice per decade. Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025 At the time of writing the price of gold bullion sits at a little under $4,000 per troy ounce, a figure which many analysts are expecting will steeply jump once or twice more over the next year. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025 In one survey, highlighted in the Donaldson report, more than half of adoption-agency staff members said that they were contacted about a problem with an open adoption once or twice a year—a tiny fraction of their placements. Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for once or twice

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“Once or twice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/once%20or%20twice. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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