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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High-traffic areas may require daily vacuuming, but at the least, carpets should be vacuumed once or twice a week.
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2025
The rise of columbaria at Catholic churches Jim Varallo would like to get to Calvary Cemetery on Lebanon Pike in Nashville more than once or twice a year to visit family members who are buried there.
—Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
These people and teams train over once or twice a day, 400 times a year for events like this.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Barely caring that the fake-tin ceiling was peeling off in one corner and had to be shoved back up once or twice a week with a broomstick.
—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2025
The rise of columbaria at Catholic churches Jim Varallo would like to get to Calvary Cemetery on Lebanon Pike in Nashville more than once or twice a year to visit family members who are buried there.
—Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
These people and teams train over once or twice a day, 400 times a year for events like this.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Barely caring that the fake-tin ceiling was peeling off in one corner and had to be shoved back up once or twice a week with a broomstick.
—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Once or twice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/once%20or%20twice. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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