Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Now and then; from time to time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- From time to time, as occasion demands or opportunity offers; at irregular intervals; on occasion.
- Sometimes; at times.
- Casually; accidentally; at random; on some special occasion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb From time to time;
now and then ; once in a while; irregularly.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb now and then or here and there
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Club Med" countries is a term occasionally used to refer to nations in southern Europe.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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We may have to fly in occasionally from the US this spring and summer though.
M�rida the beautiful 2007
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We may have to fly in occasionally from the US this spring and summer though.
M�rida the beautiful 2007
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We may have to fly in occasionally from the US this spring and summer though.
M�rida the beautiful 2007
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We may have to fly in occasionally from the US this spring and summer though.
M�rida the beautiful 2007
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The longer he went on, the more lost I became in the murky waters of his diction, in the fog of my grammatical weaknesses, though all the while I nodded and repeated a word occasionally to make it seem as though his generosity was not falling, like pearls before swine, on the ears of unappreciative foreigners in a blue car with French license plates.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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While creationists use the term occasionally, employing it merely to make their views sound more scientific, and to avoid a violation Edwards v Aguillard decision discrediting 'creation science', present day proponents approach it from a science perspective.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The longer he went on, the more lost I became in the murky waters of his diction, in the fog of my grammatical weaknesses, though all the while I nodded and repeated a word occasionally to make it seem as though his generosity was not falling, like pearls before swine, on the ears of unappreciative foreigners in a blue car with French license plates.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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The longer he went on, the more lost I became in the murky waters of his diction, in the fog of my grammatical weaknesses, though all the while I nodded and repeated a word occasionally to make it seem as though his generosity was not falling, like pearls before swine, on the ears of unappreciative foreigners in a blue car with French license plates.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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The longer he went on, the more lost I became in the murky waters of his diction, in the fog of my grammatical weaknesses, though all the while I nodded and repeated a word occasionally to make it seem as though his generosity was not falling, like pearls before swine, on the ears of unappreciative foreigners in a blue car with French license plates.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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