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Recent Examples of sporadically
Davis continued to field Busch Series entrants sporadically throughout his career, with full-time teams later in his career.
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Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2025
Lay the broken pieces in a pattern or sporadically for a mosaic look.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2025
The narrative sporadically darts into his consciousness, reflecting a conflicted conscience and a degree of interiority that make the book revolutionary.
—Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Millimeter-wave 5G is the fastest wireless network technology available, though it is deployed only sporadically in select large cities around the country.
—PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2025
Lay the broken pieces in a pattern or sporadically for a mosaic look.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2025
The narrative sporadically darts into his consciousness, reflecting a conflicted conscience and a degree of interiority that make the book revolutionary.
—Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Millimeter-wave 5G is the fastest wireless network technology available, though it is deployed only sporadically in select large cities around the country.
—PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sporadically
Adverb
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Late public school buses and needing to take care of an occasionally sick child, along with at capacity or costly child care centers, contributed to her precarious employment.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Oct. 2025
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Invariably, there are at least two of them in every starting XI — occasionally Emery will play three — with the player disguised as the left-winger actually a second No 10.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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That’s how baseball works sometimes.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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The board and tokens can feel clunky to manage mid-game, and keeping track of the location of the mic (so no one has an unfair advantage) added a fiddliness that sometimes pulled attention away from the performance.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
6 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Both moons are irregularly shaped.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Sporadically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sporadically. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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