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Recent Examples of intermittent Meanwhile, subsidies continue to favor intermittent renewables over firm capacity. Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025 Among the variations to consider are situations where one career takes the most time, or one is intermittent, or both are part-time or perhaps seasonal. Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025 No more preseason reps — or intermittent punt periods — for the sixth-round rookie. Luca Evans, Denver Post, 5 Sep. 2025 Many in this group endured intermittent homelessness throughout their lives, and now their troubles are compounded by aging. Felice J. Freyer, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for intermittent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intermittent
Adjective
  • The results showed no significant differences between the two groups in rates of death, recurrent heart attack or hospitalization for heart failure.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Using advanced recurrent networks, researchers mapped inner speech into recognizable words, hitting conversational-level performance.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Kiir and Machar had served in a unity government as part of a peace deal that ended the civil war, but their partnership remained tenuous and sporadic violence has continued between the two sides.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • If done right, rather than being a sporadic on-again, off-again (and, perhaps, threatening) part of workplace life, change will be embraced as a foundational attribute of your organization’s entrepreneurial culture.
    Julia Dhar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Audiences can also expect a new teacher, Luke Tennie’s Dominic, and potentially more recurring and guest characters.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
  • This should further increase the bank's base of more recurring revenue streams.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In August 2023, Perez – a tourism official who manages the island’s biggest concert venue, the Coliseo – got a phone call from two producers for Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, the genre-bending Puerto Rican rapper, singer, actor and occasional professional wrestler better known as Bad Bunny.
    Max Saltman, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • About the series This is the second this year in an occasional series on 2025 winners of the annual WaterSmart Landscape Contest, conducted in partnership with the San Diego County Water Authority.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • By contrast, an investment product with private asset exposure designed for workplace retirement plans may have somewhat lower costs and let investors put money in regularly as well as make periodic withdrawals during the year.
    Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The state is a non-equilibrium quantum state of matter in a system driven by a time-periodic Hamiltonian, which is a physical system whose governing rules change over time, but with a repeating, predictable cycle.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Earthquakes' sudden, rapid shaking can cause fires, tsunamis, landslides or avalanches.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • And then all of a sudden, the pick.
    Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Intermittent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intermittent. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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