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SPORADICALLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sporadically mean?
• SPORADICALLY (adverb)
The adverb SPORADICALLY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: SPORADICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a sporadic manner
Synonyms:
periodically; sporadically
Context example:
he only works sporadically
Pertainym:
sporadic (recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances)
Context examples
The most common of these activating events were observed in the RTK Flt3, in N-Ras and K-Ras, in Kit, and sporadically in other RTKs.
(Acute Myeloid Leukemia Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
Nasty 1 may also be shedding the material sporadically.
(Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed 'Nasty', NASA)
Money from the eighth house tends to come in parcels—large chunks—sporadically.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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