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many times
children oftentimes don't realize how quickly time passes
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Recent Examples of oftentimes
There’s often more availability, and oftentimes the price point is just a little bit lower.
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The Editors, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
Hood continues that oftentimes, there is a misconception that airlines don’t do enough to reunite bags with their owners.
—Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2025
And oftentimes the initial hostile takeover bid a company announces goes even higher.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 10 Dec. 2025
And that's One of the tricky things about all of this, discussion around trauma is that oftentimes we get lost in the story of it.
—Outside Online, 3 Dec. 2025
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The Editors, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
Hood continues that oftentimes, there is a misconception that airlines don’t do enough to reunite bags with their owners.
—Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2025
And oftentimes the initial hostile takeover bid a company announces goes even higher.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 10 Dec. 2025
And that's One of the tricky things about all of this, discussion around trauma is that oftentimes we get lost in the story of it.
—Outside Online, 3 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oftentimes
Adverb
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Uninsured Americans, however, often must pay for prescription medications with their own money.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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Investors often flock to gold when crises hit, inflation spikes or stocks slump as a way to preserve their money’s worth.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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But all too frequently, congressional elections are impacted by family succession, not true competition.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
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Jackson was a staunch opponent of the bank’s existence and frequently clashed with Nicholas Biddle, the bank’s president from 1823 to 1836.—
Mikayla Bunnell,
Hartford Courant,
3 Feb. 2026
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This protection doesn’t cover everything, however; lighter species of gases — including water vapor — are constantly stripped away by the solar wind, and seen in Venus’s magnetotail.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Feb. 2026
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This approach reduces visual noise and eliminates the need to constantly rotate, store, or reassess items throughout the year.—
Angelika Pokovba,
Martha Stewart,
4 Feb. 2026
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