How to Use as often as not in a Sentence

as often as not

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• And as often as not, a lot of that gets tossed out the window.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2020
• And yet, almost as often as not, the rains do stop, not just for a day or two, but for several days on end.
  — Jori Lewis, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2017
• Their home fans seemed exasperated with them as often as not.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2023
• The show is a polite tiptoe along a cliff, a trek across a field of eggshells that as often as not are strewn atop landmines.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
• The star, who famously doesn't use a stylist, has been pregnant (almost) as often as not for the past eight years.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2022
• And the egotistical truth is, as often as not, my words mean more to me than the utterings of a player or coach.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 2 June 2021
• When the United States pushes on one door, as often as not another door opens.
  — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2020
• In the mind of the plagiarized, as often as not, what has been perpetrated is nothing less than an outrage.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
• The margins of the business are high enough that exporters can be unsuccessful as often as not and still reap giant profits.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
• The best way to do that is to skip the commercial flights, packed with people as often as not already in party mode, and book a seat instead on an Aero jet.
  — Duncan Madden, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• That is why as often as not in recent years, periods of rising Treasury yields coincide with stocks rising, too.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
• Every sport has its enigmatic geniuses, players of supreme natural talent whose volatile nature as often as not trips them up.
  — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 31 Jan. 2023
• But as often as not in the last fifteen years, the Dog Day bracket has produced a Best Picture nominee.
  — Michael Cieply, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Ledecky collected another four gold medals in Rio five years ago and has 15 more from four biennial global championships and as often as not there has been a world record to go along with them.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
• Nearly every key defensive lineman from 2022 is back this spring, but Hickbottom has been part of the first group as often as not during the early days of practice.
  — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 23 Mar. 2023
• For Nunez, memory is a less capacious mental mechanism than the imagination, one that, as often as not, Nunez has used to describe the private lives animals share with their people.
  — Wyatt Mason, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• The relationship between the growth rate of M2 and inflation has been extremely weak; as often as not negative, rather than positive; and most often not statistically significant.
  — WSJ, 21 July 2022
• The movie format where a character beloved by kids becomes a CGI creature, who is then plugged into a live-action universe, is one of the most casually technically astonishing of all popcorn genres — and, as often as not, one of the most stunted.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
• 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.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025